Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.”
— Hippocrates
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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
— Edith Sitwell
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“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.”
— Retton 
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“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.”
— Paul Arden
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“At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.”
— Andy Roddick
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
— Johnny Cash
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“Someone who knows his desires and works with purpose to achieve them is a person whose feelings, thoughts, and actions are congruent with one another, and is therefore a person who has achieved inner harmony.”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
— Muhammad Ali
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“Ours is not to say what should be, but to analyze and exploit what is.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”
— Unknown
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“If there is no struggle, there can be no progress.”
— Fredrick Douglas
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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
— Henry Ford
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
— Goethe
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“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
— Bruce Lee
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“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”
— Muhammad Ali
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“I hated every minute of training, but said “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
— Muhammad Ali
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