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“God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. we are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.” – Rev Billy Graham

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“I have a kind of contempt for intelligence all by itself. Coupled with energy and willingness, it’ll go. Alone, it winds up riding the rails.” – John Hersey

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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.” – William Cowper

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“Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel an velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who hold in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.” – Carl Sanburg (on 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth)

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“Set goals and follow through on them. You transform yourself from one of life’s spectators into a real participant.” – Lou Holtz

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“The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first-a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.” – Dwight D Eishenhower

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“They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We must become the change we wish to see in the world.” – Mohandas K Gandhi

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“You can think about your problems or you can worry about them, and there is a vast difference between the two. Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion. Thinking works its way through problems to conclusions and decisions; worry leaves you in a state of tensely suspended animation.” – Harold B Walker

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“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash

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“Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage races fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.” – T W Higginson

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“I love life! The potential for good far outweighs the potential for bad. And I have faith in people.” – David O McKay

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“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure word, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – George Eliot

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“Thanks is sometimes a mask for ingratitude. True gratitude is expressed in deeds rather than in words.” –

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“The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think…it does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it develops its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.” – Raymond B Fosdick

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“those who dream by night in the dust recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.” – T E Lawrence

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“We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, doing their practical duty well; then that they may be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” – John Ruskin

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“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

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“”All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself.”” – Shantideva

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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.” – Andre Maurois

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“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.” – John Burroughs

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“Laughter crowds the tension out of our lives, brings worry to a halt, and gives the personality a chance to stretch.” –

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“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears-by listening to them.” – Dean Rusk

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“That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.” – Thomas Fuller

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“The single most valuable thing a person could be taught is how to learn, for then a person could discover everything they need to know.” – Unknown

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“Those who enjoy happiness do so because they have earned it with their thoughts.” – Alan Cohen

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“We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.” – Judge Learned Hand

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“You can’t feel down in the mouth with the corners up.” –

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“Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.” – Lord Byron

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“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” – Samuel Butler

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“Had we ourselves no faults, we should find less pleasure discovering them in others.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower were I thought a flower would grow.” – Abraham Lincoln

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“Laughter is more contagious than tears.” –

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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie

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“That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.” – Cervantes

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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

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“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and those who love it are not equal to those who live it.” – Confucius

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