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“Frustration is the compost from which the mushrooms of creativity grow.”
~ Tumerica
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“We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our motions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny.” ~ Dr T.P.Chia
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“Silence is never more golden than when a quarrel is brewing.”
~ Clifford Adams, marriage counselor
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“Patience listens with actual interest. The long suffering creates steadfastness in the midst of patience.” ~ Dr. Becky Slabaugh
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“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
~ Robert Brault
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“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” ~ Michael J. Fox
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“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
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“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!” ~ Pablo Picasso
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“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.” ~ Jane Wyman
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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” ~ Max DePree
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“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” ~ Jane Addams
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“All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.” ~ Aesop
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“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” ~ Lemony Snicket
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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” ~ Harold Wilson
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“Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.” ~ Robert C. Gallagher
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“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~ Malcolm Forbes
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“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.” ~ Bill Bradley
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“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” ~ Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou
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To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
to endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.” ~ Isiah Thomas
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“If you can remember me,
I will be with you Today,
Tomorrow and always.”
~ Nirav Sanchaniya
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“In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius
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“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” ~ Groucho Marx
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“One should use common words to say uncommon things” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” ~ Harry S. Truman
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“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.” ~ Madeleine Albright
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“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.” ~ Howard Zinn
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“Spring is not a season; it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
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“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” ~ John F Kennedy
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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” ~ Statue of Liberty
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“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” ~ Tom Robbins
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“It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.” ~ Eric Hoffer
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“There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump in puddles for you.” ~ Unknown
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“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” ~ Hanna More
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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ~ Dale Carnegie
