"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common." - Denis Diderot
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." - Unknown
"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man." - Robert Ingersoll
"When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't." - Unknown
"How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do - now." - Epictetus
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