Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes

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DH Lawrence

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Originally published by M. Secker (1923). Kangaroo, ch. 8, Viking Compass (1951).)

Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146