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“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.” ~ Randy Vader
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“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” ~ Maya Angelou
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“And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.”
~ Lee Greenwood
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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” ~ Aristotle
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“Some people spend their whole life wondering ‘Did I make a difference?’ — Some people don’t need to wonder.” ~ Medictests.com
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“Every day, you’re called upon to help others through one of the most frightening times of their lives. Every day, you’re called upon to provide a sense of security and relief during chaotic and challenging situations. Every day, you’re called upon to do the work that only a select few can do. Every day, you’re ‘Called to Care‘.” ~ EMS Strong website
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“Air goes in and out. Blood goes round and round. Any deviation is a problem.” ~ Anonymous
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“You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ~ John Bunyon
National EMS Week May 15-21, 2016
Celebrating the men and the women
who answer the call
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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~ Anatole France
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“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” ~ Robert Benchley
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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” ~ Gandhi
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In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~ Dereke Bruce
It’s National Pet Month!
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“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” ~ W.C. Fields
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“We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.” ~ Hark Herald Sarmiento
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“A good cook knows that it’s not what’s on the table that matters, it’s who is in the chairs.” ~ Anonymous
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“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.” ~ Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
Happy Passover
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“If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.” ~ Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), The Eternal Jew
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“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ~ David Tyson Gentry
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“To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.” ~ Betty Williams, Irish activist
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“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ~ Mother Teresa
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Believe what you like, but don’t believe everything you read without questioning it.” ~ Pauline Baynes
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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
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“When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go and live in the moment.” ~ Anonymous
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.” ~ Franklin P. Jones
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“Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.”
~ Shannon L. Alder
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“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.” ~ Gore Vidal
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“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.”
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
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“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.” ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
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“Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs …” ~ Chogyam Trungpa
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.” ~ Harvey Mackay
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“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“My dearest — But what more is there to be said? The things one says are always inadequate: it’s the touch of live hands, of lips pressed to lips that count. I want to hold you and say nothing. I want –” ~ Anonymous
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“How wonderful that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Ann Frank
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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
~ Iain S. Thomas
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ~ Desmond Tutu
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“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”
~ Nathaniel Branden
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“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’” ~ Brian Tracy
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“May your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and never in want.”
~ Irish proverb
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“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV
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“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” ~ Tom Landry
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“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so get on your way!” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~ John Lennon
Happy St. Patrick’ s Day 3/17/2016
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