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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
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Thomas Paine
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Nothing splendid has ever been achived except by those who dare belive that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see. The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. It always seems impossible, until it is done. I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. If you think you're going to win, it doesn't mean vou're going to win. If you think you're going to lose, you will lose. It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.