"Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness."

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Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

Ian Caldwell

“If you have time to lean, you have time to clean....”
“It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.”
“I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.”
“Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.”
“Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.”
“Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.”
“The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.”

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