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“It’s an important fact of life, war.” -Jeff Goldblum

“There are two kinds of worries — those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.” -Duke Ellington

“Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.” -Publilius Syrus

“It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that�s necessary for believing in it.” -Ugo Betti

“The darkest hour of any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. ” -Horace Greeley

“This notion is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?.” -Joseph Priestley

“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ” -Henry David Thoreau

“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” -George William Curtis

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” -Martin Luther

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” -Unknown

“Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ” -Robert Albert Bloch

“Life�s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” -Victor Marie Hugo

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” -Ashley Montagu

“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.” -Joseph Campbell

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible -not to have run away.” -Dag Hammarskjold

“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.” -Josh Billings

“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” -John A. Simone, Sr.

“A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” -Euripides

“Fortune favors the brave.” -Publius Terence

“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” -William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

“It isn’t always necessary to achieve great things. Sometimes, just surviving is a great achievement.” -Unknown

“If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.” -Yiddish Proverb

“Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.” -Johann von Goethe

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge.” -Confucius

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.” -Kahlil Gibran

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” -Theophrastus

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.” -Paul Karl Feyerabend

“They offered me a handshake of �10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.” -Tommy Docherty

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.” -Dr. David M. Burns

“You couldn’t be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you’d been abused into affecting public humility.” -Lois McMaster Bujold

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.” -Miguel de Cervantes

“Your ability will grow to match your dreams. ” -Jim Rohn

“The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.” -John Adams

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon

“Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.” -Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

“A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life–what people are interested in. That’s journalism.” -Burton Rascoe

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.” -Sloan Wilson

“Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.” -Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

“There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.” -Edmund Burke

“Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.” -Giuseppe Mazzini

“There are no failures in life, only those who give up to soon. ” -unknown

“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.” -Peter De Vries

“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.” -Matthew Arnold

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” -Euripides

“It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. ” -Joseph Ross

“My family was so poor that the lady next door gave birth to me.” -Lee Trevino

“Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” -Oprah Winfrey

“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” -Eddie Cantor

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” -Mary Lou Cook

“Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.” -Jim Rohn

“The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.” -Charles Caleb Colton

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” -James A. Garfield

“The arts are the servant wisdom its master.” -Seneca

“With great power comes great responsibility.” -Stan Lee

“If you can�t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It�s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.” -Dale Carnegie

“Money isn’t the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. ” -Jackie Mason

“Boxing is just show business with blood.” -Bruno Frank

“To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy.” -John Burroughs

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” -Thomas Jefferson

“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