"Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person...Yourself."

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“I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence,Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it.”

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“The truth.. is limitless in its range, If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it could hurt”

“Life ain't meant to come around twice, that's why I gotta get it right. They said I gotta get it honest, now I gotta give them light, but sleep on it, that's why God gave you night”

“Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like. Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type”

“I only fear God, know the weapons of the weak, the weakness of the heart, and never fall asleep...”

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— Donald Trump

Politics1945

#friendship

"Now, I should like to say something else to you about the connection with music, primarily that of Bach, i.e. the Fugue or, put more simply, the canon.. .It has a great deal in common with my own moti…"

— M. C. Escher

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"This is like winning an Oscar!… As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called True Lies. And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention."

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics1947

#truth

"He also reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Anyone passing through any of our mosques or markets carrying arrows should hold or grasp them by their he…"

— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Religion570–632

#peace