"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Former British Prime Minister
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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Former British Prime Minister
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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources."- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747) French Essayist
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"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) American Author and Humorist
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"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
English Playwright
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989) American Actress
And who doesn't love gravy?
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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. - Jodie Foster
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"Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."- Will Rogers (1879 - 193 stage and motion picture actor
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."- Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) American Writer
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"It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself."- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. - Dalai Lama
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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. - Bernard Meltzer
"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged."- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Author and Speaker
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"A good sweat, with the blood pounding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others."- Arthur Dobrin (B - 1943) American Ethicist and Writer
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) Military Commander and 34th US President
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925) American Politician, Religious Advocate
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) American Author and Humorist
Great advice!
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."- Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) English Scientist
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"Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs..or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them."- Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955) American Author and Speaker
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Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. - Franklin P. Jones
Nature is the art of God. - Dante Alighieri
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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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"A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied."- Baltasar Gracian (1601 - 1658) Spanish Philosopher