Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

– George Bernard Shaw

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To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

– William Shakespeare

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You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

– Richard Branson

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One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

– Henry Miller

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If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

– Abraham Maslow

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If everything was perfect, it wouldn’t be.

If everything was perfect, it wouldn’t be.

– Yogi Berra

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

– Alan Watts

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