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A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

René Descartes

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.