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Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

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There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

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Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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