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- no.25
- "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London, US adventurer, author, and sailor (1876-1916).
- no.24
- "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. " - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951).
- no.23
- "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher, "The Art of War", (c.722-c.481 BC).
- no.22
- "I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome, writer, (1859-1927).
- no.21
- "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx, comedian and film and television star (1890-1977).
- no.20
- "You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Yiddish Proverb.
- no.19
- "When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always." - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948).
- no.18
- "In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others." - Ibn Gabirol, poet and philosopher (c. 1022-1058).
- no.17
- "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service, writer (1874-1958).
- no.16
- "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." - Thomas Edison, inventor (1847-1931).
- no.15
- "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion." - Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE).
- no.14
- "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." - Steven Wright, comedian, actor, writer, and film producer (1955- ).
- no.13
- "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564).
- no.12
- "One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." - Malayan Proverb.
- no.11
- "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Jones, author (1908-1980).
- no.10
- "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid, poet (43 BCE-CE 17).
- no.9
- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978).
- no.8
- "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist (1875-1961).
- no.7
- "Not all those that wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973).
- no.6
- "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE).
- no.5
- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
- no.4
- "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." - Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet and artist (1883-1931).
- no.3
- "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain, author and humourist (1835-1910).
- no.2
- "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish proverb.
- no.1
- "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." - Agatha Christie, author (1890-1976).