Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Pause and reflect
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~ Mark Twain
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Explore. Deam. Discover.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain
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Two important days
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
~ Mark Twain
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People need to travel
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
~ Mark Twain