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- Fanny Brice %% "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy %% "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - E. Joseph Cossman %% "In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable." - Dale Turner %% "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." - Marian Anderson %% "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell, _Fireside_Travels_ %% "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Muriel Strode %% "Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Jacob Braude %% "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." - Anne Sullivan %% "Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth." - Thomas Fuller, _Gnomologica_ %% "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." - Mother Teresa %% "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts." - George Matthew Adams %% "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean Jacques Rousseau %% "There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." - Buck Rodgers %% "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." - Arthur Ashe %% "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun." - Pablo Picasso %% "We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." - Martin Luther King, Jr. %% "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant %% "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." - Samuel Johnson %% "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Albert Einstein %% "The entire Earth is but a point, and the place of our own habitation but a minute corner of it." -Marcus Aurelius (second-century Roman philosopher and emperor) %% "First, do no harm..." -Hippocrates %% "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." -Dr. Leonard McCoy %% "The man with a new idea is a crank - until the idea succeds." -Mark Twain %% "There may be life in yonder dark, but it will not wear the shape of man." -Loren Eiseley %% "The important thing is not to stop questioning." -Albert Einstein %% "I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials." -L.S. Lowry %% "Place three grains of sand within a vast cathedral. The cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars." -Sir James Jeans %% "The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like." - Moby %% "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman %% "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes %% "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain %% "To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble." - Mark Twain, Following the Equator %% "The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas." - Melvin Powers %% "The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself." - Saint Peter of Alcantara %% "Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice." - Arnold Toynbee %% "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison %% "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 %% "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein %% "Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." - Robert H. Schuller %% "Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." - Robert Ingersoll %% "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." - Erica Jong %% "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - William Connor Magee %% "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden %% "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy %% "Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already." - Marcus Aurelius %% "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot %% "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean Jacques Rousseau %% "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain %% "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens." - Carl Gustav Jung %% "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett %% "Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." - Albert Einstein %% "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it." - Anonymous %% "Far away there in the sky are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott %% "If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying." - Coleman Hawking %% "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain %% "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao-Tzu, The Way of Lao-Tzu %% "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts %% "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy %% "It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character." - Dale Turner %% "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Thoreau %% "I am never a failure until I begin blaming others." - Anonymous |
