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“Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ~ Stephen Covey
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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner
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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” ~
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ~
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“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” ~ Mark Twain
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“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” ~ Paul Fix
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“We need a 12-step group for compulsive talkers. They could call it
On Anon Anon.” ~ Paula Poundstone
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“Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
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“It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it, and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.” ~ George Harrison
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“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~ Elisabeth Foley
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“I like to think that as I get older I’m getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.”
~ Samantha Power
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“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.” ~ Aristotle
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“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he’s the only one who can save the ship.” ~ Ivern Ball
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“I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.” ~ Judy Woodruff
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
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“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
~ Winston Churchill
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“Put the politicians on minimum wage. Watch how fast things change.”
~ Unknown
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” ~ Richard Armour
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“If you don’t vote, you lose the right to complain.” ~ George Carlin
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“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
~ Elizabeth Bowen
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“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall”~ Oscar Wilde
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“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ~ Chad Sugg
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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” ~ George Santayana
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“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” ~ William Arthur Ward
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“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” ~ Anton Chekhov
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” ~ Amelia Earhart
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“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~
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“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ~
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“Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.” ~ Jarod Kintz
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“Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.” ~ Comte Debussy Rabutin
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“Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too ‘nutty,’ you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that’s down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.” ~ Jenifer Lewis
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“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.” ~
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“Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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” One of the best feeling in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone.” ~ Anonymous
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“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” ~ Bob Riley
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“You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.” ~
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“If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“Some days are like folding fitted sheets…” ~
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“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” ~ Chinese Proverb
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