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Work and play are words to describe the same thing under differing coditions.
Mark Twain

All slaves are slavish.
Tacitus

Everything is possible and it may seem funny but the greatest things appear from nothing and as if they wait for their day.
Sergey Brin

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking being done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller

Happiness is the absence the of striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden

You must understand that when you are writing a novel, you are not making anything up. It’s all there and you just have to find it.
Thomas Harris