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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Civilization Quotes

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

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Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Acceptance Quotes

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Self-Acceptance Quotes

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | The Present Quotes

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Creating Positive Change Quotes

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Right Quotes

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Right Quotes

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Goals Quotes

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Goals Quotes

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset | Success Quotes

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

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