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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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“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
~ Michel de Montaigne
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“A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.” ~ Debi Mazar
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“Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.”~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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“Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.”
~ Charles B. Rangel
Thank You to Our Veterans
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“I am only one; but still am one. I cannot do everything, but still can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” ~ Helen Keller
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” ~ Toni Morrison
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” ~ Tecumseh
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank
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“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~ Mother Teresa
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“You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.” ~ Scott Howard Phillips
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“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
~ Andre Maurois
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“When we hide discrimination under the guise of ‘religious freedom,’ we make a mockery of human rights.” ~ DaShanne Stokes
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“Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.” ~ Anurag Shourie
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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ~ Socrates
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~-Ronald Reagan
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.”
~ Asa Don Brown
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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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“Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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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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“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.” – George Washington
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“It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” – Barack Obama
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“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” – Lyndon Johnson
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.” – Ronald Reagan
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Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” ~ Ann Landers
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“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” ~ Buddha
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.” ~ Nas
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“The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.” ~ Judd Gregg
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“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” ~ Norman Schwarzkopf
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“Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.” ~ Blake Clark
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“Heroes don’t wear capes they wear dog tags” ~ Anonymous
National Military Appreciation Month
May 2016
Thank You
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”The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Never allow yourself to be defined by someone else’s opinion of you.”
~ Veronica Garcia
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“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” ~ Kevyn Aucoin
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“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
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