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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
— Lee Iacocca

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
— Simone Weil

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
— Dylan Thomas

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
— Francesco Guicciardini

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
— Daniel J. Boorstin

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
— Charles Darwin

"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."
— John Dryden

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."
— Robert Quillen

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
— Rebecca West

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
— Henry Miller

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
— William Shakespeare

"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."
— Gordon Brown

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