| It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- -- Emiliano Zapata
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| That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| The best mask for demoralization is daring.
- -- Lucan
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| "I would like to be rembered as someone who was extermely old."
Jim Davis, creator of Garfield
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| If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- -- Michel de Montaigne
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| Genius is eternal patience.
- -- Michelangelo
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| Attitude determines altitude.
- -- Unknown
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| The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
- -- Thomas Edison
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| Quote of the Day
People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator....When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers...I appreciate where we've come from.
- -- Julian Simon
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| The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- -- Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
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| As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- -- Thomas A. Edison
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| Great hopes make great men.
- -- Thomas Fuller
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| No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist
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| No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
- -- William Feather
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| Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
- Johann von Goethe
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| When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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| A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- Anonymous
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| If you think you can or if you think you can't, you will always be right.
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| They are ill discoverers who think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon
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| Quote of the Day
As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we've got.
- David O. McKay
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| The best portion of a good man's life are the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth |
| We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
- E. Merrill Root
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| Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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| I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
- Og Mandino
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| Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
- Sir Douglas Bader, a British fighter pilot who lost both legs in a flying accident, but still fought in World War Two. He was knighted for his work with the disabled, and the quote above is from his talk to a 14-year-old boy who had lost a leg in a car accident.
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| ...have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.
- Harold E. Stassen
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| Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
- Jesse Herman Holmes
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| I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
- Publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in a letter to his son.
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| The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out into the world and doing something original.
- Tom Morris, from his book 'If Aristotle Ran General Motors'
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| It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
- General Douglas MacArthur, on the virtues of competitive athletics.
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| I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.
- Final words of Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaire traveler aboard the ill-fated Titanic. As the boat began to sink Guggenheim changed into formal dress and calmly faced death.
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| Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- - Henry Ford
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| The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- W.J. Davison
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| We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
- - Persian proverb
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| I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.
- Glenn Seaborg
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| Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.
- John Richelsen
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| Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
--Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress
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| Patience is passion tamed.
- Lyman Abbott
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| Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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