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tiny curtains opened and we heard the tiny clap of little hands, a tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all them folks, sitting drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them when we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat

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We trick ourselves into limits because of fear

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Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents but Denmark has a solution

"Since the late 1800s, every generation has outperformed their parents."

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You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong. But you are useless for right.

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These are the challenges that harden you for life’s great tragedies

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It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. This is not a weakness, it is life (Jean-Luc Picard)

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I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our disposition and not upon our circumstances. -Martha Washington

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I have grown gray in your service and now find myself going blind - George Washington

(a deity cannot step down from the clouds more than once without dispelling mystique)(Ron Chernow)

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Principles are not for when things are easy

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“They had the splendor, we the advantage”

-Nathanael Greene

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“We must take the passions of men as nature has given them”

-George Washington

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"Hear dispassionately and determine coolly all great questions" George Washington

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Thoughts come from the universe, or our higher selves, while thinking comes from our own egos. The source dictates whether it will cause suffering or not. Similarly, where our goals and dreams come from will determine how we feel pursuing them. The key is understanding the difference. There are two sources of goals: goals created out of inspiration and goals created out of desperation. When goals are created out of desperation, we feel an immense sense of scarcity and urgency. The feel heavy, like a burden...

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what you obtain externally can always be lost, but what you find within yourself can never be taken away

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don't wait for something outside of you to give you permission to feel how you want inside

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Live every day like it's your first