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“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry James
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” -Henry James
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.” -Henry James
Henry James, Junior was born on 15 April 1843 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was a son of Henry James, Senior, and a brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. Henry James never married. He became a novelist and a critic. He spent much of his career in Great Britain, where he became naturalized in 1915. Henry James, Junior passed on at 72 years of age on 28 February 1916 in London, England.
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“It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.” -P. D. James
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” -P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, also known as P. D. James, was born on 3 August 1920 in Oxford, England. She became a novelist. Phyllis Dorothy James passed on at 94 years of age on 27 November 2014 in Oxford, England.
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“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention.” -William James
“Ultimately, laughter makes an office a place where people want to work.” -William James
William James was born in 1842. He was an American psychologist and philosopher. William James passed on in 1910.
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“A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
“Genius and sunshine have this in common, that they are the two most precious gifts of Heaven to Earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna Brownell Jameson was born 17 May 1794. She became a British writer known for her books “Characteristics of Women” and “Sacred and Legendary Art” and for her travel memoirs including “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.” Anna Brownell Jameson passed on at 65 years of age on 17 March 1860
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“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” -Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson is a pseudonym of Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman, who was born as Margaret Ethel James on 8 January 1891 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman passed on at 95 years of age on 30 September 1986 in Cambridge, England.
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“When the going gets tough look for an easier way.” -Frank Jaster
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“Remove those, ‘I want you to like me,’ stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good - on your mirror.” -Susan Jeffers
Susan Jane Jeffers (maiden name Gildenberg) was born on 3 March 1938 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She was a psychologist, motivational speaker, and writer, remembered for her book “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987). Susan Jane Jeffers passed on at 74 years of age on 27 October 2012 in Santa Monica, California, United States of America.
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“For the industrious-thinking right-living young man the future holds as many rewards as any period in our nation’s history.” -William M. Jeffers
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“Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.” -Francis Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey was born in 1773 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a literary critic. Francis Jeffrey passed on in 1850.
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“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.” -Gertrude Jekyll
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“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” -Mae Jemison
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“The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice if its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free-fall.” -Holman W. Jenkins, Junior
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“Us country women make good wives. No matter what happens, we’ve seen worse.” -Keith Jennison
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“The scars of others should teach us caution.” -Jerome: letter 54
Jerome was born as Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus in about C.E. 347 on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in Stridon, Dalmatia. In C.E. 365, he was baptized and converted to Catholicism. At this time, he began his study of theology and the Hebrew language. Jerome then lived for many years as a hermit in the desert of Syria, where he continued his studies. He is known for his translation of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin, known as the “Latin Vulgate.” Eventually, Jerome returned to the east, where he passed on at about 73 years of age on C.E. 30 September 420, and rests under the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and the Church of England (Anglican Communion). Saint Jerome’s Day is on 30 September of each year.
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.” -Jerome K. Jerome: “Three Men in a Boat” (1889), chapter 15
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.” -Jerome K. Jerome
“One of the advantages of being poor is that it necessitates the cultivation of the virtues.” -Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He became a laborer, a humorist, and a novelist. His works include “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow” (1886) and “Three Men in a Boat” (1887). Jerome Klapka Jerome passed on at 68 years of age on 14 June 1927 in Northampton, England.
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“I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.” -Derek Jeter
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“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “River Driftwood” (1881), ‘Country By-Ways’
“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
“It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Fiction” (1896)
“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
Sarah Orne Jewett was born in 1849. Her writing was first published in ”The Atlantic” magazine when she was 19 years of age. Sarah Orne Jewett passed on in 1909.
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“Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.” -Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal: speaking in the Republican Presidential debate (6 August 2015)
Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal was born on 10 June 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America. He became a United States Congressman (2005 - 2008) and a governor of the state of Louisiana (2008 - 2016).
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“More often than not in life the height of our success is determined by the depth of our commitment.” -Martin C. Jischke
Martin C. Jischke was a president of Purdue University.
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“The best things that can come out of the garden are gifts for other people.” -Jamie Jobb
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” -Steve Jobs
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes . . . the ones who see things differently . . . they’re not fond of rules . . . You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things . . . they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.” -Steve Jobs
“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains.” -Steve Jobs
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in 1955. He was a co-founder of the computer company Apple. Steve Jobs passed on in 2011.
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“Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.” -John XXIII
“See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little.” -John XXIII
John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli on 25 November 1881 in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Provincia di Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers that lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church on 10 August 1904 and served in various posts, including appointments as a papal nuncio in France, and a delegate to Bulgaria and Greece. Pope Pius XII made Mr. Roncalli a cardinal in a consistory on 12 January 1953, in addition to naming him the Patriarch of Venice and the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca. John XXIII was a pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 28 October 1958 until his passing. John XXIII passed on at 81 years of age on 3 June 1963 in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.
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“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” -John Paul II
John Paul II was born in 1920. He was a leader of the Roman Catholic Church. John Paul II passed on in 2005.
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“We tend to live up to the words we hear in our own head.” -Chalene Johnson
Chalene Johnson was born on 2 February 1969. She is a physical fitness trainer and the founder of Powder Blue Productions.
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“It is how one responds to the imperfections of others that will determine one’s growth.” -Lucille Johnson
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“You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don’t know where you want to go.” -Percy H. Johnson
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“Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends upon what you are made of.” -Robert E. Johnson
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“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.” -Wendell Johnson
Wendell Johnson was born in 1906. Wendell Johnson passed on in 1965.
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“Beaten paths are for beaten men.” -Eric Johnston
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“With knowledge comes opportunity. With perseverance comes success.” -J. C. Johnstone
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“What I say whispers, but what I do thunders.” -David Fletcher Jones
David Fletcher Jones was born in 1895. He founded the Australian clothing manufacturing and retailing company, Fletcher Jones and Staff. David Fletcher Jones passed on in 1977.
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“I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely these are my native air.” -Eli Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Jones was born in 1884. He was a Methodist Christian theologian and a missionary to India. Eli Stanley Jones passed on 1973.
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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Franklin P. Jones
Franklin Pierce Jones was born in 1908 in Saratoga, New York, United States of America. He became a news reporter, a public relations executive, and a humorist. Mr. Jones later worked as a freelance writer, producing more than 35,000 paragraphs, epigrams, anecdotes, gag lines, and definitions. He is known for writing the longest continuously published feature in the “Saturday Evening Post,” a column titled, “Put It This Way,” during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Franklin Pierce Jones passed at 72 years of age on 29 December 1980 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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“Let me challenge you to know that we live in an inexhaustible abundance in this Universe. There is no limit to what you can be or have, except your ability to dream and believe in your dream.” -James Breckenridge Jones: “If You Can Count to Four: Here’s How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life!” (5 February 2015)
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“I have not yet begun to fight!” -John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was born in 1747. He became an American navy admiral. John Paul Jones passed on in 1792.
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“Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Involve me, and I’ll learn.” -Marla Jones
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“I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over.” -Milton Jones
“My grandfather invented the cold air balloon. It never really took off.” -Milton Jones
“My wife - it’s difficult to say what she does. She sells seashells on the seashore.” -Milton Jones
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“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.” -Roger Jones
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“Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordan
“Earn your leadership every day.” -Michael Jordan
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in 1963. He is an American professional basketball player and businessman.
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“Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.” -William George Jordan: “The Majesty of Calmness” (1900), page 54
“Happiness is the soul’s joy in the possession of the intangible.” -William George Jordan
“There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.” -William George Jordan
“Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter, and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.” -William George Jordan
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“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.” -Joseph Joubert
“Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.” -Joseph Joubert
“The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties.” -Joseph Joubert, as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“What we say is similar to what we are.” -Joseph Joubert: as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” -Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert was born on 7 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord, France. He became a moralist, a philosopher, and an essayist, best known for his posthumously published “Pensées” (“Thoughts”). Joseph Joubert passed on at 69 years of age on 4 May 1824 in Paris, France.
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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” -Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett was born in 1817. He was a British scholar. Benjamin Jowett passed on in 1893.
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“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.” -Julian of Norwich
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“By persuading others, we convince ourselves.” -Franciscus Junius: as quoted in “The Letters of Junius” (1768)
Franciscus Junius was born in 1589. Franciscus Junius passed on in 1677.
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“Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” -Juvenal
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” -Juvenal
“Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses.” -Juvenal
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.” -Juvenal
“Who will guard the guardians themselves?” [translation to English]
“Qui custodiet ipsos custodes.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
“Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.” [translation to English]
“Mens sana in corpore sano.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, also known as Juvenal, was born in about C.E. 47 in Aquinum, Roman Empire (now Aquino, Italy). He became a poet and a satirist in ancient Rome. He is known for his “Satires.” Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis passed on in C.E. 138.
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“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry James
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” -Henry James
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.” -Henry James
Henry James, Junior was born on 15 April 1843 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was a son of Henry James, Senior, and a brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. Henry James never married. He became a novelist and a critic. He spent much of his career in Great Britain, where he became naturalized in 1915. Henry James, Junior passed on at 72 years of age on 28 February 1916 in London, England.
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“It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.” -P. D. James
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” -P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, also known as P. D. James, was born on 3 August 1920 in Oxford, England. She became a novelist. Phyllis Dorothy James passed on at 94 years of age on 27 November 2014 in Oxford, England.
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“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention.” -William James
“Ultimately, laughter makes an office a place where people want to work.” -William James
William James was born in 1842. He was an American psychologist and philosopher. William James passed on in 1910.
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“A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
“Genius and sunshine have this in common, that they are the two most precious gifts of Heaven to Earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna Brownell Jameson was born 17 May 1794. She became a British writer known for her books “Characteristics of Women” and “Sacred and Legendary Art” and for her travel memoirs including “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.” Anna Brownell Jameson passed on at 65 years of age on 17 March 1860
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“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” -Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson is a pseudonym of Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman, who was born as Margaret Ethel James on 8 January 1891 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman passed on at 95 years of age on 30 September 1986 in Cambridge, England.
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“When the going gets tough look for an easier way.” -Frank Jaster
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“Remove those, ‘I want you to like me,’ stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good - on your mirror.” -Susan Jeffers
Susan Jane Jeffers (maiden name Gildenberg) was born on 3 March 1938 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She was a psychologist, motivational speaker, and writer, remembered for her book “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987). Susan Jane Jeffers passed on at 74 years of age on 27 October 2012 in Santa Monica, California, United States of America.
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“For the industrious-thinking right-living young man the future holds as many rewards as any period in our nation’s history.” -William M. Jeffers
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“Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.” -Francis Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey was born in 1773 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a literary critic. Francis Jeffrey passed on in 1850.
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“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.” -Gertrude Jekyll
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“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” -Mae Jemison
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“The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice if its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free-fall.” -Holman W. Jenkins, Junior
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“Us country women make good wives. No matter what happens, we’ve seen worse.” -Keith Jennison
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“The scars of others should teach us caution.” -Jerome: letter 54
Jerome was born as Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus in about C.E. 347 on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in Stridon, Dalmatia. In C.E. 365, he was baptized and converted to Catholicism. At this time, he began his study of theology and the Hebrew language. Jerome then lived for many years as a hermit in the desert of Syria, where he continued his studies. He is known for his translation of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin, known as the “Latin Vulgate.” Eventually, Jerome returned to the east, where he passed on at about 73 years of age on C.E. 30 September 420, and rests under the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and the Church of England (Anglican Communion). Saint Jerome’s Day is on 30 September of each year.
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.” -Jerome K. Jerome: “Three Men in a Boat” (1889), chapter 15
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.” -Jerome K. Jerome
“One of the advantages of being poor is that it necessitates the cultivation of the virtues.” -Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He became a laborer, a humorist, and a novelist. His works include “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow” (1886) and “Three Men in a Boat” (1887). Jerome Klapka Jerome passed on at 68 years of age on 14 June 1927 in Northampton, England.
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“I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.” -Derek Jeter
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“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “River Driftwood” (1881), ‘Country By-Ways’
“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
“It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Fiction” (1896)
“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
Sarah Orne Jewett was born in 1849. Her writing was first published in ”The Atlantic” magazine when she was 19 years of age. Sarah Orne Jewett passed on in 1909.
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“Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.” -Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal: speaking in the Republican Presidential debate (6 August 2015)
Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal was born on 10 June 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America. He became a United States Congressman (2005 - 2008) and a governor of the state of Louisiana (2008 - 2016).
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“More often than not in life the height of our success is determined by the depth of our commitment.” -Martin C. Jischke
Martin C. Jischke was a president of Purdue University.
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“The best things that can come out of the garden are gifts for other people.” -Jamie Jobb
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” -Steve Jobs
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes . . . the ones who see things differently . . . they’re not fond of rules . . . You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things . . . they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.” -Steve Jobs
“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains.” -Steve Jobs
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in 1955. He was a co-founder of the computer company Apple. Steve Jobs passed on in 2011.
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“Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.” -John XXIII
“See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little.” -John XXIII
John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli on 25 November 1881 in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Provincia di Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers that lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church on 10 August 1904 and served in various posts, including appointments as a papal nuncio in France, and a delegate to Bulgaria and Greece. Pope Pius XII made Mr. Roncalli a cardinal in a consistory on 12 January 1953, in addition to naming him the Patriarch of Venice and the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca. John XXIII was a pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 28 October 1958 until his passing. John XXIII passed on at 81 years of age on 3 June 1963 in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.
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“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” -John Paul II
John Paul II was born in 1920. He was a leader of the Roman Catholic Church. John Paul II passed on in 2005.
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“We tend to live up to the words we hear in our own head.” -Chalene Johnson
Chalene Johnson was born on 2 February 1969. She is a physical fitness trainer and the founder of Powder Blue Productions.
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“It is how one responds to the imperfections of others that will determine one’s growth.” -Lucille Johnson
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“You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don’t know where you want to go.” -Percy H. Johnson
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“Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends upon what you are made of.” -Robert E. Johnson
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“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.” -Wendell Johnson
Wendell Johnson was born in 1906. Wendell Johnson passed on in 1965.
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“Beaten paths are for beaten men.” -Eric Johnston
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“With knowledge comes opportunity. With perseverance comes success.” -J. C. Johnstone
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“What I say whispers, but what I do thunders.” -David Fletcher Jones
David Fletcher Jones was born in 1895. He founded the Australian clothing manufacturing and retailing company, Fletcher Jones and Staff. David Fletcher Jones passed on in 1977.
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“I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely these are my native air.” -Eli Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Jones was born in 1884. He was a Methodist Christian theologian and a missionary to India. Eli Stanley Jones passed on 1973.
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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Franklin P. Jones
Franklin Pierce Jones was born in 1908 in Saratoga, New York, United States of America. He became a news reporter, a public relations executive, and a humorist. Mr. Jones later worked as a freelance writer, producing more than 35,000 paragraphs, epigrams, anecdotes, gag lines, and definitions. He is known for writing the longest continuously published feature in the “Saturday Evening Post,” a column titled, “Put It This Way,” during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Franklin Pierce Jones passed at 72 years of age on 29 December 1980 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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“Let me challenge you to know that we live in an inexhaustible abundance in this Universe. There is no limit to what you can be or have, except your ability to dream and believe in your dream.” -James Breckenridge Jones: “If You Can Count to Four: Here’s How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life!” (5 February 2015)
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“I have not yet begun to fight!” -John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was born in 1747. He became an American navy admiral. John Paul Jones passed on in 1792.
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“Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Involve me, and I’ll learn.” -Marla Jones
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“I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over.” -Milton Jones
“My grandfather invented the cold air balloon. It never really took off.” -Milton Jones
“My wife - it’s difficult to say what she does. She sells seashells on the seashore.” -Milton Jones
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“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.” -Roger Jones
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“Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordan
“Earn your leadership every day.” -Michael Jordan
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in 1963. He is an American professional basketball player and businessman.
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“Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.” -William George Jordan: “The Majesty of Calmness” (1900), page 54
“Happiness is the soul’s joy in the possession of the intangible.” -William George Jordan
“There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.” -William George Jordan
“Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter, and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.” -William George Jordan
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“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.” -Joseph Joubert
“Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.” -Joseph Joubert
“The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties.” -Joseph Joubert, as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“What we say is similar to what we are.” -Joseph Joubert: as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” -Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert was born on 7 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord, France. He became a moralist, a philosopher, and an essayist, best known for his posthumously published “Pensées” (“Thoughts”). Joseph Joubert passed on at 69 years of age on 4 May 1824 in Paris, France.
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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” -Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett was born in 1817. He was a British scholar. Benjamin Jowett passed on in 1893.
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“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.” -Julian of Norwich
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“By persuading others, we convince ourselves.” -Franciscus Junius: as quoted in “The Letters of Junius” (1768)
Franciscus Junius was born in 1589. Franciscus Junius passed on in 1677.
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“Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” -Juvenal
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” -Juvenal
“Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses.” -Juvenal
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.” -Juvenal
“Who will guard the guardians themselves?” [translation to English]
“Qui custodiet ipsos custodes.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
“Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.” [translation to English]
“Mens sana in corpore sano.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, also known as Juvenal, was born in about C.E. 47 in Aquinum, Roman Empire (now Aquino, Italy). He became a poet and a satirist in ancient Rome. He is known for his “Satires.” Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis passed on in C.E. 138.
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