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“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner

“Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’ and thou shalt progress.” -Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

“Human requirements are the inspiration for art.” -Stephen Gardiner

“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.” -Dan Quayle

“For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.” -La Rochefoucauld

“I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.” -Ralph Lauren

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle

“Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.” -Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” -Robert Frost

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“Modesty is the citadel of beauty.” -Demades

“Some stories are true that never happened.” -Elie Wiesel

“The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.” -Albert Camus

“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.” -Malcolm X

“It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.” -Charles Peguy

“Believe.. .and the magic will follow. ” -Unknown

“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.” -La Bruyere

“I am not telling you that achieving success is going to be easy, I am telling you that it’s going to be worth it!” -Art Williams

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we information?” -T. S. Elliot

“It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won.” -Anonymous

“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.” -Cicero

“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” -Madeleine L’Engle

“No dream is out of reach… you can do anything!” -Unknown

“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.” -Victor Hugo

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.” -C. D. Jackson

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will” -Jawaharlal Nehru

“To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.” -Tryon Edwards

“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.” -Josh Billings

“There are two sides to every question.” -Protagoras

“Simplicity is the peak of civilization.” -Jessie Sampter

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.” -Thomas Fuller

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? ” -Robert Browning

“Where there are friends there is wealth.” -Titus Maccius Plautus

“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.” -Thomas Merton

“Thank the good Lord for a job.” -Wynton Marsalis

“Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself” -Felix Adler

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” -Theodore Roosevelt

“Just remember….when you think all is lost, the future remains.” -Bob Goddard

“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.” -Anatole France

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln

“And from the discontent of one man The world’s best progress springs.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.” -Albert Camus

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” -Publilius Syrus

“Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.” -William Morris

“When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.” -Herbert Clark Hoover

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.” -Napoleon Hill

“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” -Lord Acton

“Love your friend with his faults.” -Anonymous

“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” -Dorothy Height

“Success is more attitude than aptitude. ” -Unknown

“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” -Dorothy Height

“People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. ” -Earl Nightingale

“I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.” -Nina Berberova

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!” -George Bernard Shaw

“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” -Thomas B. Macaulay

“We get paid for bringing value to the market place.” -Jim Rohn

“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.” -Kenneth Hildebrand

“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -Confucius

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. ” -Helen Keller

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy ” -Dale Carnegie

“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.” -Evan Esar

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“A little twist to the usual, �Everything comes to he who waits�. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” -Thomas Alva Edison

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.” -Abigail Van Buren

“The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.” -Ludwig Boerne

“Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You’ve really got to know the impact of what you’re wearing on the character you’re playing.” -Kyle MacLachlan

“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.” -Harry S Truman

“The only real training for leadership is leadership.” -Anthony Jay

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals” -Benjamin Franklin

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.” -Isaac B. Singer

“Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.” -G. Weatherly

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” -Stephen Covey

“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on” -Peter McWilliams

“Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.” -Boethius

“It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important.” -Zig Ziglar

“Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.” -Charles de Gaulle

“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.” -Victor Hugo

“Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited.” -Anonymous

“A man without trust is a man without life.” -Robert Jordan

“The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.” -Sun Tzu

“Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.” -Deng Ming-Dao

“You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.” -Jerry Garcia

“Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” -Anthony Robbins

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.” -Logan Pearsall Smith

“If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.” -Rolland W. Schloerb

“F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real.” -Anthony Robbins

“Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.” -John Sterling

“In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.” -Jane Haddam

“Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you’ve been there. Live it to learn it.” -Mark McClinchie

“You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can�t keep that which belongs to someone else.” -Edgar Cayce

“They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing” -Hindu proverb

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” -Denis Waitley

“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.” -Chuang Tzu

“In America, public opinion is the leader.” -Frances Perkins

“Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner�s success as a means for the attainment of his own.” -Ludwig von Mises

“It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you just do it. ” -Robert M. Pirsig

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” -Aristotle

“First thoughts are not always the best.” -Vittorio Alfieri

“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.” -Tennessee Williams