I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win some noble renown.

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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

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"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

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"The madness of love the greatest of heaven’s blessings."

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"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

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"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

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"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

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"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

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"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

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