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“Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.”
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“When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.”
Source : Alice Adams (2011). “LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage
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“Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.”
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“Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.”
Source : W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.32, Courier Corporation
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“It's your life and we're all going to be gone one day so just be proud of yourself.”
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“I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.”
Source : "He's got the world at his feet" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2008. 
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“If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.”
Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
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“An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.”
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“Really, Channing,†remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.”
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“The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.”
