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 ‘There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.’ — O. Henry 
 ‘Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.’ — Mark Twain 
 ‘Who covets more is evermore a slave.’ — Robert Herrick 
 ‘Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.’ — William James 
 ‘Change is the end result of all true learning.’ — Leo Buscaglia 
 ‘Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.’ — Victor Hugo 
 ‘Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.’ — Franz Kafka 
 ‘If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.’ — Napoleon Hill 
 ‘The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.’ — Richard L. Evans 
 ‘Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.’ — Billy Wilder 
 ‘The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.’ — Paul Valéry 
 ‘Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.’ — Helen Keller 
 ‘It is better to rust out than wear out.’ — Edwin Markham 
 ‘We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.’ — Helen Hayes 
 ‘God cannot alter the past, though historians can.’ — Samuel Butler 
 ‘True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.’ — Edith Wharton 
 ‘Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.’ — Pope Paul VI 
 ‘Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.’ — George Will 
 Happy birthday to you, si cantik. 
 ‘Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.’ — Albert Camus 
 ‘You always admire what you really don’t understand.’ — Blaise Pascal 
 ‘The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.’ — Mignon McLaughlin 
 ‘A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.’ — George Bernard Shaw 
 ‘The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.’ — E. E. Cummings 
 ‘Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.’ — Gertrude Stein 
 Definitely the best debate of the year, and hopefully adding English subtitles soon. https://youtu.be/b6kf_bdwa6E 
 ‘Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.’ — Margaret Atwood 
 ‘A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.’ — Phyllis Diller 
 ‘I think; therefore I am.’ — René Descartes 
 ‘Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.’ — R. Buckminster Fuller 
 ‘Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.’ — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
 ‘There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.’ — Charles M. Schulz 
 ‘The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.’ — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
 ‘The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.’ — Mark Twain 
 ‘All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.’ — Juvenal