"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
- Publilius Syrus
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"Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family." - Thomas Jefferson
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"The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating." - Jarod Kintz
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"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." - Robert M. Hutchins
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter
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"Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it and the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. Be real! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all." - Larry Winget
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"It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end." - Elizabeth Moon
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"For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation." - Paracelsus
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"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail." - Francis Quarles
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"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power." - Henry George
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." - Peter Drucker
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"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. So if you're feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a beginning, not an ending." - Neale Donald Walsch
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings." - W. Lee Grant
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"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life." - William E. Channing
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"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." - James A. Garfield
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"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day." - Author Unknown
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"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." - Socrates
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"Dream big, but allow yourself the opportunity to start small, and have your share of struggles in the beginning. The world's greatest composers weren't writing symphonies the day they first sat at a piano." - Kevin O'Rourke
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"Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait." - The William Feather Magazine
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"When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other." - Margaret Wheatley
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"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch
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"Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way." - Native American Saying
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"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up." - Robert Tew
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Thoreau
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"By perseverance the snail reached the Ark." - Charles Spurgeon
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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats
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"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond." - Hypatia
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"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Work for a cause, not for applause. Live your life to express, not to impress, don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt." - Author Unknown
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"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it." - Haniel Long
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"The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think." - Larry Page
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"Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter." - Sharon Salzberg
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"Life is unpredictable. Love may arrive when it's least expected. Laughter may occur at any moment and tears may fall without warning. Happiness may be around the corner or sadness over the next hill. Embrace every moment and every emotion. Your life is unique and it's a journey that only you can travel." - Susan Gale
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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
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"Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership." - Theodore H. White
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"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time." - Libba Bray
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"If you're gonna make a change... operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me." - Tony Robbins
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"We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given life. And it's up to you to make it good or bad." - Ward Foley
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"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? " - Henry Miller
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy
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"Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow." - James A. Michener
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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." - William Shakespeare
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"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Said by the King to the White Rabbit.
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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late." - Marie Beyon Ray
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"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone." - Donny Osmond
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"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
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"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant
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"To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit." - Robert J. Furey
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"Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." - Miguel Angel Ruiz
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"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can." - Og Mandino
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"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." - Albert Einstein
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"We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations." - Paulo Coelho
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
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"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." - Dick Cavett
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"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it." - Ray Bradbury
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"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains." - John Muir
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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci
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"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." - David Starr Jordan
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing
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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte
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"I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid." - Sara Zarr
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"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality." - Daniel Webster
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." - Quaker Proverb
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"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once." - Paulo Coelho
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"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it." - Ali Vincent
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James A. Baldwin
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne
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"When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be." - Molly Wizenberg
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"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour
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"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." - Elaine Heffner
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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character." - Hosea Ballou
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"We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner
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"Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world." - Agatha Christie
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"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." - Henry Moore
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition." - Jacques Barzun
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"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." - W. C. Fields
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"God answers knee-mail." - Author Unknown
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"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." - Steven Wright
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"Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Don Marquis
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke
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"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." - Bethania McKenstry
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"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus - The Matrix
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"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word." - Goran Persson
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