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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
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What will matter is not your success but your significance.
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Creating a child takes no love or skill being a parent requires lots of both.
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What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built not what you got but what you gave not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
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Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.
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