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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45) [Anna Eleanor Roosevelt]
(Attributed)

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. 1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Comment on “I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — Ask Me Anything” (1 Mar 2012)
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Often shortened as "I am driven by two main philosophies: know more about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."

Being president is like running a cemetery; you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (b. 1946) American politician, US President (1993-2001)
Speech, Galesburg, Illinois (Jan 1995)

If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circumstances out of which you are at a loss how to extricate yourself, do what is right, and be assured that that will extricate you the best out of the worst situations. Though you cannot see when you take one step what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth in the easiest manner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one will untie itself before you. Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties tenfold; and those who pursue these methods get themselves so involved at length that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) US President (1801-09)
Letter to Peter Carr (1785)

Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) Rumanian-English writer
Haven (1951)