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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa 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 The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

Biography is the only true history.

- Thomas Carlyle

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

- William Ellery Channing

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

- Plutarch

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

- Oscar Wilde