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There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.
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So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.
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But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.
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If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.
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There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
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It is the pang of parting, the unloosing our grasp, the breaking asunder some strong tie, the leaving some cherished purpose unfulfilled, that creates the repugnance to go
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The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.
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We shall enter into any war with a full consciousness of the awful consequences that it always entails, whether successful or not, and we, of course, shall make every effort consistent with national honor and the highest national interest to avoid a resort to arms.
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These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency.