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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”
― Dame Edna Everage

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.”
― Yogi Berra

“Walk on air against your better judgement.”
― Seamus Heaney