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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.

William Faulkner

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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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