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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
 Francois Rabelais

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

Quotes from the same author

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
 Francois Rabelais
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
 Francois Rabelais
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
 Francois Rabelais
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.
 Francois Rabelais
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
 Francois Rabelais