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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

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There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
~ Norman Mailer (1923 – 2007), Armies Of The Night
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….whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who have ever been, and will ever be, animated by the same passions, and this they necessarily have the same results.
Discourses, Book Three, Chap. XLIII; see also Book One, Chap. XXXIX.

The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.”
– Anne Morris
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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
– Robert McCloskey
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” ~ Chinese proverb
extra credit:  find out where I got this, because I forgot.