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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

— Coco Chanel Believing in Ourselves (1992)

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Believing in Ourselves (1992)

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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