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I've attempted to make attributions, but probably there are errors. Will fix as a find them:

If you're going to eat shit, don't nibble

The difference between a dream and a goal, is a deadline

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn - Alvin Toffler

One should respect public opnion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unecessary tyranny - Bertrand Russell

Perilous are the devices of an art deeper than which we posses ourselves - Gandalf

If money weren't so overrated we'd value it less - Herve Le Tellier

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested - Francis Bacon

We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort - Mencius

Freedom, we find out, is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self. - Iris Murdoch

People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice, then I prefer my mother - Albert Camus

Our genes didn't evolve for a life of pampered comfort. A little stress to induce hormesis once in a while likely goes a long way - David Sinclair

He who does not risk, does not drink champagne

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures - Thoreau

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality - Ayn Rand

When a pope excommunicates a whole nation, methinks he rather excommunicates himself than them - Thomas Hobbes

He that gives should not remember. He that receives should not forget - The Talmud

Overconfidence is a powerful force - Richard Thaler