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Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

May
26

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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences we often cannot foresee.
—Marian Wright Edelman

May
19

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In times like the present, men should
utter nothing for which they would not
willingly be responsible through time
and in eternity.
—Abraham Lincoln

May
12

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The heart has eyes that the brain knows
nothing of.
—Charles H. Parkhurst

May
5

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If fifty million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
—Anatole France

Apr
28

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Each of us must work for his own improvement,
and at the same time share a general
responsibility for all humanity.
—Marie Curie

Apr
21

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Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into a friend.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr
14

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Our real problem is not our strength
today; it is the vital necessity of action
today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Apr
7

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Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to success is more important
than any other one thing.
—Abraham Lincoln

Mar
31

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mar
24

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All of us, in the glow of feeling we
have pleased, want to do more to please.
—William James

Mar
17

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other
helps you make a life.
—Sandra Carey

Mar
10

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Sometimes opportunity knocks, but
must of the time it sneaks up and then
quietly steals away.
—Doug Larson

Mar
3

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When the days are too short chances
are you are living at your best.
—Earl Nightingale

Feb
25

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No man is defeated without until he
has first been defeated within.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Feb
18

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To be desperate is to discover strength. We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton

Feb
11

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They who want milk should not sit in
the middle of a field and wait for a cow to
back up to them.
—Lilian Katz

Feb
4

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The man who has accomplished all
that he thinks worthwhile has begun to
die.
—E. T. Trigg

Jan
28

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That man is the richest whose
pleasures are the cheapest.
—Henry David Thoreau

Jan
21

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It is true that no one can harm the
person who wears armor. But no one
can help him, either.
—Kristin Hunter

Jan
14

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Self-knowledge is best learned, not by
contemplation, but by action. Strive to
do your duty and you will soon discover
of what stuff you are made.
—Goethe