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10 quotes for today - 8 February 2019

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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. 
- Chuck Norris 


I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. 
-  Maya Angelou 


Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. 
- Mark Twain 


We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. 
- Jean-Paul Sartre 


A lie told often enough becomes the truth. 
- Lenin 


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. 
- Aristotle


An idea is salvation by imagination. 
- Frank Lloyd Wright 


College isn't the place to go for ideas. 
- Helen Keller 


When ideas fail, words come in very handy. 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. 
- John Steinbeck 

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