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“I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.”

— Barack Obama

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.”

— Howard Jacobson

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

— Horace

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”

— Mark Twain

“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”

— Napoleon Hill

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.”

— Douglas Coupland

“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”

— Pablo Picasso

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”

— Dalai Lama

“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

— Rumi