If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;

if in terms of ten years, plant trees;

if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

- Confucius -

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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

- French Proverb -

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Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors.

- Jewish Proverb -

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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

-  Arthur Schopenhauer -

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer -

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