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The historical significance of urban centers
The impact of cultural and technological advances
The role of urban centers in shaping society
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
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The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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