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Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed
Robert Kiyosaki
“Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet”
Philip Pullman
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
“To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Voltaire
“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”
Uma Thurman
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
Abraham Lincoln
"It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
George Carlin
“If happiness is the goal - and it should be - then adventure should be a top priority.”
Richard Branson
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
"If you can't even clean up your room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?"
Jordan Peterson
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
Thomas Carlyle
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
G.K. Chesterton
"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."
Andrew Jackson
To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect. You just have to care
Mandy Hale
The first to apologize is the bravest
The first to forgive is the strongest
The first to forget is the Happiest
Matthew Jacobson
“Once a year, go some place you've never been before.”
Dalai Lama
"Sometimes its good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
On this day in 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; $3 billion in 2007 dollars) in damages. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O’Leary barn and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans or even a comet may have been responsible for the event that left four square miles of the Windy City, including its business district, in ruins. Dry weather and an abundance of wooden buildings, streets and sidewalks made Chicago vulnerable to fire. The city averaged two fires per day in 1870; there were 20 fires throughout Chicago the week before the Great Fire of 1871
Despite the fire’s devastation, much of Chicago’s physical infrastructure, including its water, sewage and transportation systems, remained intact. Reconstruction efforts began quickly and spurred great economic development and population growth, as architects laid the foundation for a modern city featuring the world’s first skyscrapers. At the time of the fire, Chicago’s population was approximately 324,000; within nine years, there were 500,000 Chicagoans. By 1893, the city was a major economic and transportation hub with an estimated population of 1.5 million. That same year, Chicago was chosen to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, a major tourist attraction visited by 27.5 million people, or approximately half the U.S. population at the time.
In 1997, the Chicago City Council exonerated Mrs. O’Leary and her cow. She turned into a recluse after the fire, and died in 1895