Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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