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“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job.”
― Adlai Stevenson

“A hungry man is not a free man.”
― Adlai Stevenson

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
― Adlai Stevenson