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-- Virginia Woolf Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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-- Paul Eldridge Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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