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Life Plan

“If you don’t design your own life plan,
chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.
And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

                         — Jim Rohn

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Character

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else’s traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him.
- Cicero

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Gossip

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
– Socrates

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Civilization

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.
- Hilaire Belloc
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Life

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
- Albert Schweitzer