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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau All good things are wild and free.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Things do not change; we change.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Life in us is like the water in a river.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau A written word is the choicest of relics.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Never allow any soul to clips your wings, you were born an ember. You were born a flame.
Aija MayrockAija Mayrock No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
Denis WaitleyDenis Waitley I thought I was born to be with you but actually we weren’t meant to be.
Frank ZFrank Z The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sophia LorenSophia Loren No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
Mitt RomneyMitt Romney I didn’t grow up wealthy. We couldn’t even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
Charlie PuthCharlie Puth We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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