Brainy Quotes
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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To be is to do.
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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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You exist only in what you do.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
