"When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear."

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Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,

Quintus Curtius Rufus

“I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.”

Source : Source: brooklynactivemama.com
“Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Jan 29, 2013
“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.”
“Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.”
“Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion”
“Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.”

Source : "O. J. Simpson: 10 years later". Interview with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.
“No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.”
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”

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