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Quotations by Authors Aa through Az

10/25/2018

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“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation . . . is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.” -George Matthew Adams
 
“Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.” -George Matthew Adams
 
“You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.” -George Matthew Adams
 
George Matthew Adams was born on 23 August 1878 in Saline, Michigan, United States of America. He became a newspaper columnist and the founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service, which syndicated comic strips and columns to newspapers. His own writings were published widely in newspapers. George Matthew Adams passed on at 84 years of age on 29 October 1962.
 
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“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.” -Samuel Adams
 
Samuel Adams was born in 1722. He was an American Revolutionary War leader. Samuel Adams passed on in 1803.
 
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -Scott Adams
 
Scott Raymond Adams was born on 8 June 1957 in Windham, New York, United States of America. He is a cartoonist, a satirist, a commentator, and a business writer. He is known as the creator of the cartoon “Dilbert.”
 
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“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” -John Addison
 
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“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” -Joseph Addison
 
“Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.” -Joseph Addison
 
“Music is the greatest good that mortals know. And all of Heaven we have below.” -Joseph Addison
 
Joseph Addison was born on 1 May 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England, as the eldest son of Reverend Lancelot Addison. He became an essayist, a dramatist, a poet, a politician, and co-founder with Richard Steele of “The Spectator” (1711 - 1712) magazine. Joseph Addison passed on at 47 years of age on 17 June 1719 in London, England.
 
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“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.” -Alfred Adler
 
Alfred Adler was born on 7 February 1870 in Penzing, Austria. He became a psychologist and is the founder of ‘Individual Psychology.’ Alfred Adler passed on at 67 years of age on 28 May 1937 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
 
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“You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.” -Mortimer Adler
 
Mortimer Jerome Adler was born in 1902. He was an American philosopher in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions, an educator, a writer, and an editor. He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica, and his own Institute for Philosophical Research. Mortimer Jerome Adler passed on in 2001.
 
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“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.” -Aeschylus
 
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” -Aeschylus
 
“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.” -Aeschylus
 
Aeschylus was born in about 523 B.C.E. in Eleusis, Greece. He became a poet and a tragic dramatist. Among other plays, he wrote “Persians” (472 B.C.E.), “Seven Against Thebes” (467 B.C.E.), “The Suppliants” (463 B.C.E.), and “Oresteia” (458 B.C.E.). Aeschylus passed on at about 67 years of age in about 456 B.C.E. in Gela, Sicily, Italy.

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“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.” -Louis Agassiz
 
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“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread . . .” -Conrad Aiken
 
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“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” -Leo Aikman
 
Leo Aikman was born on 22 December 1908 in Dana, Indiana, United States of America. He worked with the National Parks Service in Washington, District of Columbia for several years before transferring to Marietta, Georgia in 1941 to be the historian at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. He became a columnist for the “Atlanta Constitution” from 1948 until he passed away. As a humorist and speaker, he entertained and inspired audiences across the continental United States. Leo Aikman passed on in 1978.
 
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“Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.” -Robert Alan
 
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“Unless you know what you want, you can’t ask for it.” -Emma Albani
 
Emma Albani is a stage name of Marie Louise Emma Lajeunesse, who was born in 1852. She was a Canadian soprano. Marie Louise Emma Lajeunesse passed on in 1930.
 
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“A man can do all things if he but wills them.” -Leon Battista Alberti
 
Leon Battista Alberti was born on 14 February 1404 in Genoa, Italy. He became a writer, an artist, an architect, a poet, a priest, a linguist, a philosopher, a cryptographer, and a general Renaissance polymath. Leon Battista Alberti passed on at 68 years of age on 25 April 1472 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.” -Amos B. Alcott
 
“Thinking makes the man.” -Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott was born on 29 November 1799 in Wolcott, Connecticut, United States of America. He was the father of Louisa May Alcott. He became a schoolteacher, a writer, and a social reformer. Amos Bronson Alcott passed on at 88 years of age on 4 March 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott: “Little Women” (1868 - 1869)
 
“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“Love is a great beautifier.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
Louisa May Alcott, also known by the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, was born on 29 November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States of America, as a daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott. She became a novelist. She is known for her book, “Little Women” (1868 - 1869), followed by its sequels, “Good Wives,” “Little Men,” and “Jo’s Boys.” Louisa May Alcott passed on at 55 years of age on 6 March 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.” -Jeremy Aldana
 
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“Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn’t fit for society; I didn’t fit into the system.” -Brian Wilson Aldiss
 
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“Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.” -Charles L. Allen
 
Charles Livingstone Allen was born on 24 June 1913 in Newborn, Georgia, United States of America. He became an ordained minister and a pastor, and held the title Reverend, in the United Methodist denomination of Christianity. Charles Livingstone Allen passed on at 92 years of age on 30 August 2005 in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
 
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“Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.” -George Allen
 
“Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.” -George Allen
 
George Herbert Allen, Senior was born on 29 April 1918 in Nelson County, Virginia, United States of America. He became a football coach. George Herbert Allen, Senior passed on at 72 years of age on 31 December 1990 in Palos Verdes Estates, California, United States of America.
 
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“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you sit there.” -James Allen (similar quotation attributed to Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935)))
 
“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome. Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.” -James Allen: “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)
 
“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.” -James Allen: “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)
 
James Allen was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England on 28 November 1864. He became a writer. He is known for his inspirational books and poetry, and as a pioneer in the self-help movement. His first book was “From Poverty to Power, or, the Realization of Prosperity and Peace” (1901), but his best-known work is “As a Man Thinketh” (1903). James Allen passed on at 47 years of age on 24 January 1912 in Ilfracombe, Devon, England.
 
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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -James Lane Allen
 
“We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” -James Lane Allen
 
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” -James Lane Allen
 
James Lane Allen was born on 21 December 1849 near Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America. He became a novelist and a short story writer. James Lane Allen passed on at 75 years of age on 18 February 1925 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” -Noelie Altito
 
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“Live your life with purpose. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Be yourself and don’t wait for the approval of others. But most importantly, have a positive and humble mindset no matter what situation you are in. Count your blessings, not your problems, and you will realize how beautiful your life truly is.” -Troy Amdahl
 
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“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
 
“To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for not everything can be untied.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
Henri-Frédéric Amiel, also known as Henri Amiel, was born on 27 September 1821 in Geneva, Switzerland. He became a moral philosopher, a writer, a poet, and a critic. He is known for his book, “Journal Intime” (English: “Private Journal”) (1884). Henri-Frédéric Amiel passed on at 59 years of age on 11 May1881 in Geneva Switzerland.
 
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“To succeed, you have to be open to problems. You have to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems.” -Dave Anderson
 
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“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” -Greg Anderson
 
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“How do you balance the budget, cut taxes, and increase defense spending at the same time? It’s very simple. You do it with mirrors.” -John B. Anderson
 
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“It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true.” -Sara E. Anderson
 
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“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” -Walter Anderson
 
“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” -Walter Anderson
 
Walter Anderson was born on 31 August 1944. He is an American newspaperman and an editor, and has served as the Chief Executive Officer of “Parade Magazine.”
 
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“Even though circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, never lose sight of your goal. Instead, prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” -Mario Andretti
 
“Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.” -Mario Andretti
 
“Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” -Mario Andretti

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“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Maya Angelou
 
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” -Maya Angelou
 
“This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” -Maya Angelou
 
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” -Maya Angelou
 
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” -Maya Angelou
 
Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Ann Johnson on 4 April 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She became a poet, a memoirist, a dancer, a producer, a playwright, a director, a teacher, an essayist, a singer, and an actress. Maya Angelou passed on at 86 years of age on 28 May 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.
 
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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” -Jean Anouilh
 
Jean Marie-Lucien-Pierre Anouilh was born in 1910. He was a French dramatist best known for his 1943 play, “Antigone,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical drama. Much of his work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Jean Marie-Lucien-Pierre Anouilh passed on in 1987.

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“Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.” -Robert Anthony
 
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony
 
“Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come from fear.”
 
“Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.” -Robert Anthony
 
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.” -Robert Anthony
 
“We fear the thing we want the most.” -Robert Anthony
 
“What you can’t communicate runs your life.” -Robert Anthony
 
“You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it.” -Robert Anthony
 
Robert Newton Anthony was born on 6 September 1916 in Orange, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became an organizational theorist, a professor of management control at Harvard Business School, a United States Assistant Secretary of Defense, and a writer. Robert Newton Anthony passed on at 90 years of age on 1 December 2006 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
 
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” -Susan B. Anthony
 
Susan Brownell Anthony, also known as Susan B. Anthony, was born on 15 February 1820. She became an advocate of women’s right to vote. Susan Brownell Anthony passed on at 86 years of age on 13 March 1906.
 
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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” -Antisthenes
 
Antisthenes was born in about 444 B.C.E. in Athens, Greece. He became a philosopher and a rhetorician. Antisthenes passed on in about 365 B.C.E. in Athens, Greece.
 
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“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” -Thomas Aquinas
 
“To love is to will the good of the other.” -Thomas Aquinas: “Summa Theologica” (1265 - 1274), II - II, q. 26, art. 6
 
Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy. He became a Roman Catholic Christian priest and friar, a philosopher, and a theologian. Thomas Aquinas passed on in 1274.
 
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“Well, back to the old drawing board.” -Peter Arno
 
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Is it so small a thing,
To have enjoyed the Sun,
To have lived light in the Spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done?
-Matthew Arnold: “Empedocles on Etna”
 
Matthew Arnold was born on 24 December 1822 in Laleham, Staines, England. He was married to Frances Wightman in 1851. He became a Victorian poet, a literary critic, and a social reformer. Matthew Arnold passed on at 65 years of age on 15 April 1888 in Liverpool, England.
 
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“Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” -Mary Kay Ash
 
“Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.” -Mary Kay Ash
 
Mary Kay Ash was born as Mary Kathlyn Wagner in 1918 in Hot Wells, Texas, United States of America. She became a businesswoman, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Incorporated, and a writer. Mary Kay Ash passed on in 2001.
 
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe
 
Arthur Ashe was born in 1943. He became an American professional tennis player. Arthur Ashe passed on in 1993.
 
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“Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.” -Marvin J. Ashton: as quoted in ‘If Thou Endure it Well,’ published in “Ensign” (November 1984) magazine, page 22
 
“The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
“We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.” -Marvin J. Ashton: Brigham Young University devotional
 
“What we do with what happens to us is more important than what happens to us.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
Marvin Jeremy Ashton was born in 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He served a mission in Great Britain and worked in the lumber business as a young man. He worked as managing director of LDS Social Services and was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1971 until his passing. Marvin Jeremy Ashton passed on in 1994.
 
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“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” -Herbert Henry Asquith
 
Herbert Henry Asquith was born in 1852. He became a prime minster of Great Britain (1908 - 1916). Herbert Henry Asquith passed on in 1928.
 
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“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” -Athenaeus (about C.E. 200)
 
“Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.” -Athenaeus (about C.E. 200)
 
Athenaeus of Naucratis was born in C.E. 170 in Naucratis. He was a grammarian and a rhetorician of ancient Greece. Athenaeus of Naucratis passed on in C.E. 223.
 
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“Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.” -Chet Atkins
 
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“Procrastination and worry are the twin thieves that will try to rob you of your brilliance - but even the smallest action will drive them from your camp.” -Gil Atkinson

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“There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live, and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.” -Edward Atkinson
 
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“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?” -Kate Atkinson
 
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“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.” -William Walker Atkinson
 
William Walker Atkinson, also known by the pseudonyms Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka, was born on 5 December 1862. Mental, physical, and financial ruin led him to discover the theories and philosophies found in his works. William Walker Atkinson passed on at 69 years of age on 22 November 1932.
 
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“15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.” -Charles Atlas
 
“Nobody picks on a strong man.” -Charles Atlas
 
Charles Atlas was born as Angelo Siciliano in 1892. Charles Atlas passed on in 1972.
 
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“All that we are not stares back at what we are.” -W. H. Auden
 
“You owe it to us all to get on with what you’re good at.” -W. H. Auden
 
Wystan Hugh Auden, also known as W. H. Auden, was born on 21 February 1907 in York, England. He was married to Erika Mann in 1935. He became a writer and a poet. He traveled extensively in Europe, Iceland, and China during the 1930’s. He fought in the Spanish Civil War. He became a naturalized American in 1938. Wystan Hugh Auden passed on at 66 years of age on 29 September 1973 in Vienna, Austria.
 
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“Since nothing we intend is ever faultless and nothing we attempt ever without error and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness we are saved by forgiveness.” -David Augsburger
 
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“Hear the other side.” [English translation]
“Audi partem alterum.” [original Latin]
-Augustine of Hippo
 
“I have become a question to myself.” [English translation]
“Mihi quaestio factus sum.” [original Latin]
-Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 - 28 August 430): “Confessions” (about 397), X, 33
 
“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love . . . I sought what I might love, in love with loving.” [English translation]
“Nondum amabam, et amare amabam . . . quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.” [original Latin]
-Augustine of Hippo (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430): “Confessions” (about 397), III, 1
 
“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.” -Augustine of Hippo
 
“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.” -Augustine of Hippo (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430): as attributed in Thomas Fielding (John Wade): “Select Proverbs of All Nations” (1824) page 216
 
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, was born as Aurelius Augustine on C.E. 13 November 354 in Thagaste, Numidia (now Souk Ahras, Algeria). He became a Christian theologian, a writer, and a bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa (396 - 430). He is known for his works, “The Confessions of Saint Augustine” and “The City of God.” Augustine of Hippo passed on at 75 years of age on C.E. 28 August 430 in Hippo Regius, Numidia (now Annaba, Algeria).
 
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“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts . . . take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness . . .” -Marcus Aurelius: “Meditations”
 
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!” -Marcus Aurelius
 
“When you are offended at anyone’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
Marcus Aurelius, also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, was born as M. Annius Verus on C.E. 26 April 121. He became an emperor (C.E. 161 - C.E. 180) of ancient Rome. He is known for his work on Stoic philosophy titled, “The Meditations” (C.E. 167). Marcus Aurelius passed on at 59 years of age on C.E. 17 March 180.
 
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“She was not a woman of many words, for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas.” -Jane Austen: “Sense and Sensibility” (1811), volume 2, chapter 12
 
Jane Austen was born in 1775. She never married. She became an English novelist. Jane Austen passed on in 1817.
 
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“Fake it until you make it! When you’re feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside.” -Denise Austin
 
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10/24/2018

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“Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.” -Maltbie D. Babcock
 
Maltbie Davenport Babcock was born on 3 August 1858 in Syracuse, New York, United States of America. He became a preacher and a writer. He is known as the creator of the hymn, “This is My Father’s World.” Maltbie Davenport Babcock passed on at 42 years of age on 18 May 1901.
 
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“The words of the world want to make sentences.” -Gaston Bachelard
 
Gaston Bachelard was born in 1884. He was a French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist. Gaston Bachelard passed on in 1962.
 
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“Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.” -Frank Baer
 
“When you don’t have an education, you have to use your brains.” -Frank Baer
 
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We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts not breaths;
     In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives
     Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
-Philip James Bailey: “Festus,” ‘Scene, A Country Town’
 
Philip James Bailey was born on 22 April 1816 in Nottingham, England, as the only son of Thomas Bailey and his first wife, Mary Taylor. He became poet. He is known as the author of “Festus.” Philip James Bailey passed on in 1902.
 
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“It is very nearly impossible . . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” -James Baldwin
 
“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.” -James Baldwin
 
James Baldwin was born in 1924. He was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. James Baldwin passed on in 1987.

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“If I had my life to live again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” -Tallulah Bankhead
 
Tallulah Bankhead was born in 1903. She was an American stage and screen actress, and a talk show host. Tallulah Bankhead passed on in 1968.
 
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“No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.” -Roger Bannister
 
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” -Roger Bannister
 
Roger Bannister was the first person recorded to have broken the four-minute time for running a mile, in 1952.
 
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“We can wear flat shoes now and be fat.” -Ann Barbour (1996), commenting on a new agreement on working conditions
 
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” -Thomas Haynes Bayly: “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay” (1844), ‘Isle of Beauty’
 
Thomas Haynes Bayly was born in 1797. He was an English songwriter. Thomas Haynes Bayly passed on in 1839.
 
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“Appreciation is the memory of the heart.” -Bill Beattie
 
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“She was one of the people who say, ‘I don’t know anything about music really, but I know what I like.’” -Max Beerbohm
 
Henry Maximilian ‘Max’ Beerbohm was born in 1872. He became an artist, a book illustrator, a caricaturist, a satirist, and a writer. Henry Maximilian ‘Max’ Beerbohm passed on in 1956.
 
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“To find fulfillment . . . don’t exist with life - embrace it.” -Jim Beggs
 
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“One is successful just in the sincere attempt to become successful. You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a fall.” -Rick Beneteau

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“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.” -Roy Bennett
 
Roy T. Bennett.
 
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“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” -Warren G. Bennis
 
Warren G. Bennis was born in 1925. He is an American writer and sociologist.
 
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“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.” -George Bernanos
 
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“It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.” -Sarah Bernhardt
 
Sarah Bernhardt was born on 22 or 23 October 1844. She was a French actress. Sarah Bernhardt passed on at 78 years of age on 26 March 1923.
 
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“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” -Mary Frances Berry
 
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“Thought creates character.” -Annie Besant
 
Annie Besant was born as Annie Wood on 1 October 1847 in Clapham, London, England. She was married to Frank Besant. She became a social reformer, a Theosophist, a writer, and an orator. She is known as the author of, “The Ancient Wisdom” (1897). Annie Besant passed on at 85 years of age on 20 September 1933 in Adyar, Madras Presidency, India.
 
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“Hear much; speak little.” -Bias of Priene
 
Bias of Priene was born at Priene. He was a Greek sage, reckoned among the Seven Sages of Greece.
 
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“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco: “Haven” (1951)
 
“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco: “Haven” (1951)
 
“To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco: “Haven” (1951)
 
Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco, also known as Elizabeth Bibesco and Elizabeth Asquith, was born as Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith on 26 February 1897. She was married to Prince Antoine Bibesco of Romania in 1919. She became a writer, a poet, and a socialite. Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco, passed on at 48 years of age on 7 April 1945 in Bucharest, Romania.
 
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“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.” -Jim Bishop
 
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“Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.” -Claudia Black
 
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“People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the ‘lucky breaks’ theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck . . . The world is run by those who show up . . . not those who wait to be asked.”
-Steve Blank
 
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906. He was a German Protestant theologian. Dietrich Bonhoeffer passed on in 1945.
 
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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.” -Daniel J. Boorstein
 
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.” -Daniel J. Boorstein
 
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was born in 1914. He was an American historian and writer. Daniel Joseph Boorstin passed on in 2004.
 
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“There is a close connection between manners and clothes. You can’t curtsy in a tight skirt.” -Mary Borden
 
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“Boren’s Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.” -James H. Boren
 
“Nothing is impossible until it is sent to a committee.” -James H. Boren
 
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“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” -Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
 
Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was born on 27 September 1627 in Dijon, France. He became a Catholic Bishop, a theologian, a preacher, a writer, and a tutor. Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet passed on at 76 years of age on 12 April 1704 in Paris, France.
 
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“When all else is lost the future still remains.” -Christian Nestell Bovee

“Few minds wear out; more rust out.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
 
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“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday, and celebrate just living.” -Amanda Bradley
 
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At breakfast a husband is cheery or blue
     At dinner he’s blue or he’s cheery
And when you’ve admitted these facts to be true
     You’ve mastered the whole subject, dearie
-Elspeth M. Bragdon
 
Elspeth MacDuffy Bragdon was born in 1897. She was married to Marshall H. Bragdon. Elspeth MacDuffy Bragdon passed on in 1980.
 
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“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy of social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” -Louis Brandeis: “Other People’s Money” (1933), page 62
 
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born in 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States (1916 - 1939). Louis Dembitz Brandeis passed on in 1941.
 
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“We may be blinded by our own perceived flaws, but those who love us have clearer vision.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
 
Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced ‘bon brannock’) was born on 5 May 1947 in Westbury, New York, United States of America. She is a writer and a professional speaker. Website: http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/.
 
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“As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.” -Bertolt Brecht: “Life of Galileo” (9 September 1943); type of work: historic drama
 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich ‘Bertolt’ Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire. He became a poet, a dramatist, and a theater director. Eugen Berthold Friedrich ‘Bertolt’ Brecht passed on at 58 years of age on 14 August 1956 in East Berlin, East Germany (now Berlin, Germany).
 
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“If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.” -Ted E. Brewerton
 
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“I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.” -Ashleigh Brilliant
 
“The chief purpose of our organization is to perpetuate our organization.” -Ashleigh Brilliant
 
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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” -Charlotte Brontë
 
Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816. She was married to Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854. She was a British novelist. Charlotte Brontë passed on in 1855.
 
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“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” -Phillips Brooks: as quoted in Elizabeth Peabody: “Primary Education” (1916), page 190
 
Phillips Brooks was born on 13 December 1835. He was an American clergyman and writer. He briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar, he is remembered on January 23. He is known as the lyricist of the Christmas carol, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Phillips Brooks passed on at 57 years of age on 23 January 1893.
 
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“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Richard Brooks
 
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“The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.” -Thomas Brooks
 
Thomas Benton Brooks was born in 1608. Thomas Benton Brooks passed on in 1680.
 
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“Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.” -Gene Brown
 
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“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior
 
“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior
 
Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior was born in 1940 in Tennessee, United States of America. He became a writer. He is known for his inspirational books “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (Volume 1) (1991) and “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (Volume 2) (1994)
 
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“Even as water carves monuments of stone so do our thoughts shape our character.” -Hugh B. Brown
 
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“Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.” -Les Brown
 
“Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” -Les Brown
 
“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” -Les Brown

“When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all.” -Les Brown
 
Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown was born on 17 February 1945. He is an American motivational speaker, writer, politician, and radio and television personality.
 
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“The world is measureless and vast. Live in it with curiosity and intensity.” -Margaret Wise Brown
 
Margaret Wise Brown was born in 1910. Margaret Wise Brown passed on in 1952.
 
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“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on 6 March 1806 in Kelloe, Durham, England. A spinal injury received in a fall from a pony prevented her from attending school. She was married to Robert Browning in 1846. She became a poet. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth Barrett Browning passed on at 55 years of age on 29 June 1861 in Florence, Kingdom of Italy.

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“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” -Robert Browning
 
“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” -Robert Browning
 
Robert Browning was born on 7 May 1812. He was married to Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. He became an English poet and playwright. Robert Browning passed on at 77 years of age on 12 December 1889.
 
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“Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.” -William Jennings Bryan
 
William Jennings Bryan was born on 19 March 1860 in Salem, Illinois, United States of America. He was a Christian Presbyterian by faith. He became a lawyer, an orator, a lecturer, and a politician. William Jennings Bryan passed on at 65 years of age on 26 July 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, United States of America.
 
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“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” -Frank Buchman (similar quotation attributed to Mahatma Gandhi)
 
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“The best things in life aren’t things.” -Art Buchwald
 
Art Buchwald was born on 20 October 1925. He was an American journalist and humorist. Art Buchwald passed on at 81 years of age on 17 January 2007.
 
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“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.” -Pearl S. Buck

“Once the what has been decided, the how always follows. We must not make the how an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.” -Pearl S. Buck: “To My Daughters, With Love” (1967)

“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” -Pearl S. Buck

“We have every reason to look forward into the future with hope and excitement. Fear nothing and no one. Work honestly. Be good, be happy. And remember that each of you is unique, your soul your own, irreplaceable, and individual in the miracle of your mortal frame.” -Pearl S. Buck
 
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.” -Pearl S. Buck
 
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was born on 26 June 1892. She was an American writer of novels on life in China. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life through 1934 in China. She is known for her novel, “The Good Earth” (2 March 1931). Pearl Sydenstricker Buck passed on at 80 years of age on 6 March 1973.

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“Don’t believe the world owes you a living, the world owes you nothing - it was here first.” -Robert Jones Burdette
 
“There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry . . . Yesterday and Tomorrow.” -Robert Jones Burdette
 
Robert Jones Burdette was born on 30 July 1844 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a newspaper editor, a humorist, and a lecturer. Robert Jones Burdette passed on at 70 years of age on 19 November 1914 in Pasadena, California, United States of America.
 
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“If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.” -James Burgh
 
James Burgh was born in 1714. He was a Scottish writer. James Burgh passed on in 1775.
 
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“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.” -Edmund Burke

“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him.” -Edmund Burke, as quoted in Tryon Edwards: “A Dictionary of Thoughts” (1908), page 212

“Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.” -Edmund Burke

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” -Edmund Burke

“The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.” -Edmund Burke

“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.” -Edmund Burke

“When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.” -Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was born in 1729. He was an Irish-born British statesman, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and a writer. After moving to England, he served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain. Edmund Burke passed on in 1797.
 
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“It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett
 
“The world should be a little bit better because a man has lived.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett: “Little Lord Fauntleroy” (1886)
 
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was born on 24 November 1849 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. She emigrated with her family to the United States of America in 1865. She became a novelist and playwright, and is known as the author of “The Secret Garden” (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett passed on at 74 years of age on 29 October 1924 in Plandome Manor, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Beauty is also to be found in a day’s work.” -Mamie Sypert Burns
 
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“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” -John Burroughs
 
“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: “The Summit of the Years” (1913), ‘Preface’
 
“I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.” -John Burroughs
 
“Leap, and the net will appear.” -John Burroughs
 
“Travel and society polish one but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” -John Burroughs
 
John Burroughs was born on 3 April 1837 on a family farm in the Catskill Mountains near Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, United States of America. He became a naturalist and a writer. John Burroughs passed on at 83 years of age on 29 March 1921 near Kingsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States of America.
 
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“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.” -Leo Buscaglia
 
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” -Leo F. Buscaglia
 
Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia, was born on 31 March 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a school professor, a lecturer, and a writer of inspirational books. Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia passed on at 74 years of age on 11 June 1998 in Glenbrook, Nevada, United States of America.
 
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“All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” -Samuel Butler
 
“An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.” -Samuel Butler
 
Samuel Butler was born on 4 December 1835. He was an English novelist, essayist, critic, and a satirist. Samuel Butler passed on at 66 years of age on 18 June 1902.
 
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Truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
-Lord Byron: “Don Juan” (1818 - 1824)
 
George Gordon Noel Byron, also known as Lord Byron, was born on 22 January 1788 in London, England. He was lame from birth. In 1815, he married Anne Isabelle Milbanke. He became a poet and a satirist. His first volume of verses, titled “Hours of Idleness,” was published in 1807. “Manfred” and “The Lament of Tasso” were written in 1817. From 1818 until he passed on, Byron was occupied with writing “Don Juan,” and spent much of his life traveling in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Turkey. In 1823, he went to Greece and aided in the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks. George Gordon Noel Byron passed on at 36 years of age on 19 April 1824 in Greece.
 
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10/23/2018

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“Stride forward with a firm, steady step, knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will attain every aim.” -Eileen Caddy
 
“What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.” -Eileen Caddy
 
Eileen Caddy was born on 26 August 1917. She was a Scottish writer. She is known as the spiritual leader and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, Scotland. Eileen Caddy passed on at 89 years of age on 13 December 2006.
 
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“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.” -John Cage
 
“Try as we may to make a silence we cannot.” -John Cage

John Milton Cage, Junior was born in 1912. John Milton Cage, Junior passed on in 1992.
 
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“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world, that is not intended to make us rejoice.” -John Calvin
 
John Calvin was born in 1509. He was a French Protestant theologian of the Reformation. John Calvin passed on in 1564.
 
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“Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
-Joseph Campbell
 
Joseph Campbell was born on 26 March 1904. He was an American writer on the subjects of folklore and mythology, an editor, an anthropologist, and a philosopher. Joseph Campbell passed on at 83 years of age on 31 October 1987.
 
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“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.” -Albert Camus
 
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.” -Albert Camus
 
“It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.” -Albert Camus
 
“Life is absurd.” -Albert Camus
 
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” -Albert Camus
 
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -Albert Camus
 
Albert Camus (ălꞋbərt kä-mōōꞋ/kä-müꞋ) was born on 7 November 1913 in Algeria. He became a French journalist, novelist, essayist, dramatist (playwright), and philosopher; author of “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942), “The Rebel” (1951), and “The Fall” (1956). Albert Camus passed on at 46 years of age on 4 January 1960 in Villeblerin, France.
 
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“Be willing to learn each day from others.” -George I. Cannon
 
George Ivins Cannon was born on 9 March 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He was married to Isabel Hales. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. George Ivins Cannon passed on at 89 years of age on 4 August 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“A good sailor was never made on smooth seas.” -George Q. Cannon
 
George Quayle Cannon was born on 11 January 1827 in Liverpool, England. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. George Quayle Cannon passed on at 74 years of age on 12 April 1901 in Monterey, California, United States of America.
 
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“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” -Al Capp
 
Al Capp was born in 1909. Al Capp passed on in 1979.
 
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“We are what we believe we are.” -Benjamin N. Cardozo
 
Benjamin N. Cardozo was born in 1870. He was an American jurist and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1932 - 1938). Benjamin N. Cardozo passed on in 1938.
 
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“Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against this principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.” -Richard Carlson: “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” (16 January 1997)
 
Richard Carlson was born on 16 May 1961 in Piedmont, California, United States of America. He became a psychotherapist, a writer, and a motivational speaker. He is known as the author of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It’s All Small Stuff” (1997). Richard Carlson passed on at 45 years of age on 13 December 2006 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
 
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“Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will have already become clearer.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this Universe.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795. He was married to Jane Welsh in 1826. He was a Scottish teacher, historian, essayist, social commentator, satirical writer, and political philosopher. Thomas Carlyle passed on in 1881.

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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.  I just watch what they do.” -Andrew Carnegie
 
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” -Andrew Carnegie
 
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland. He became an American businessman and philanthropist. Andrew Carnegie passed on in 1919.
 
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“I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.” -Joyce Cary
 
“Went to a rubbish heap and got some evening newspapers. Shoved ’em in my boots. Shoved ’em up my trousers. Stuffed ’em down my waistcoat. As good as leather against an east wind. Thank God for the Press, the friend of the poor.” -Joyce Cary
 
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“Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly, and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.” -Herbert N. Casson: as quoted in “Forbes” (1948), page 42
 
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“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.” -Willa Cather
 
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. You learn the delivery of a part only before an audience.” -Willa Cather
 
“To fulfill the dreams of one’s youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.” -Willa Cather
 
Willa Sibert Cather was born as Wilella Sibert Cather on 7 December 1873 in Gore, Virginia, United States of America. She became a writer and achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including “O Pioneers!” (1913), “The Song of the Lark” (1915), and “My Ántonia” (1918). She also wrote “One of Ours,” a novel set during World War I. Willa Sibert Cather passed on at 73 years of age on 24 April 1947 in Manhattan, New York, United States of America.
 
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“I am one of the people who love the why of things.” -Catherine the Great
 
“I praise loudly. I blame softly.” -Catherine the Great: letter (23 August 1794); and in a conversation with Diderot: as quoted in Samuel Arthur Bent: “Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men” (1887)
 
Catherine the Great, also known as Catherine II, was born as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia. She became an Empress of Russia, and was the most renowned and the longest-ruling woman leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July 1762 until she passed on. Russia was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever, and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. Catherine the Great passed on at 67 years of age on 17 November 1796.
 
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“I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” -Edith Cavell
 
Edith Cavell was born in 1865. Edith Cavell passed on in 1915.
 
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“If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.” -Dick Cavett
 
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Some reckon time by stars,
And some by hours;
Some measure days by dreams
And some by flowers;
My heart alone records
My days and hours.
-Madison J. Cawein: “Some Reckon Time by Stars”
 
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“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.” -Nicolas Chamfort
 
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“All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.” -Suzanne Chapin
 
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“I would rather that the people should wonder why I wasn’t President than why I am.” -Salmon P. Chase
 
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“Man is what he believes.” -Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in Taganrog, Russian Empire. He became a physician, a dramatist, a dramaturge, and a short story writer. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov passed on at 44 years of age on 15 July 1904 in Badenweiler, German Empire.
 
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“You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? . . . Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.” -Lydia M. Child
 
Lydia Maria Francis Child was born on 11 February 1802 as Lydia Maria Francis. She was an American novelist and journalist. Lydia Maria Francis Child passed on at 78 years of age on 20 October 1880.
 
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A dog is not considered a good dog
because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man
because he is a good talker.
-Chuang-tzu (fl. B.C.E. 350)
 
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“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” -Frank A. Clark
 
Frank Atherton Clark was born on 10 October 1911 in Elkhart, Iowa, United States of America. He became a writer and a cartoonist. Frank Atherton Clark passed on at 80 years of age on 11 December 1991.
 
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“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.” -Ramsey Clark: as quoted in the “New York Times” (2 October 1977) newspaper
 
“Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?” -Ramsey Clark
 
Ramsey Clark was born in 1927. He is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General.
 
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“I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.” -Thomas Campbell Clark
 
Thomas Campbell Clark was born in 1899. He was an American lawyer, Attorney General, and Justice of the Supreme Court (1949 - 1967). Thomas Campbell Clark passed on in 1977.
 
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“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” -Albert Clarke
 
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“The only real problem in life is what to do next.” -Arthur C. Clarke
 
Arthur Charles Clarke was born on 16 December 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, England. He became a science fiction writer, science writer, undersea explorer, inventor, television series host, and futurist. He is known best for his short stories and novels, among them “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series “Mysterious World.” Arthur Charles Clarke passed on at 90 years of age on 19 March 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
 
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“The better we know each other, the more we love each other.” -Henry C. Clausen
 
“We have an American right to say: ‘I reject the welfare way to the lazy life and favor instead the work way to the good life.’” -Henry C. Clausen
 
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“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.” -Henry Clay: “The Great Compromise”
 
Henry Clay was born in 1777. He was an American politician. Henry Clay passed on in 1852.
 
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“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.” -William Cobbett
 
William Cobbett was born in 1763. He was an English reformer, a political writer, a writer on agriculture, and a traveler. He founded the “Weekly Political Register” (1802 - 1835) and “The Porcupine.” He became a bookseller in Philadelphia and in London. William Cobbett passed on in 1835.
 
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“And, when you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” -Paulo Coelho: “The Alchemist” (1988)
 
“You cannot avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.” -Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho was born in 1947. He is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
 
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“We don’t have to be ‘successful,’ only valuable. We don’t have to make money, only a difference, and particularly in the lives society counts least and puts last.” -William Sloane Coffin, Junior: “Credo” (2004), ‘Faith, Hope, Love’
 
William Sloane Coffin, Junior was born on 1 June 1924 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church, and received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. He became a chaplain of Yale University and served as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City. William Sloane Coffin, Junior passed on at 81 years of age on 12 April 2006 in Strafford, Vermont, United States of America.
 
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“Be happy. It is a way of being wise.” -Colette
 
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” -Colette
 
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, also known simply as Colette, was born in 1873. She was a French novelist. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette passed on in 1954.
 
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“Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream - but create!” -Robert Collier
 
“You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.” -Robert Collier
 
Robert Collier was born on 19 April 1885 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, as a cousin of Robert Joseph Collier (1876 - 1918). He became a writer and a motivational speaker. Robert Collier passed on in 1950.
 
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“How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.” -C. C. Colton
 
“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton
 
“Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he has gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pigmy.” -C. C. Colton
 
Charles Caleb Colton was born in 1780. He was an English writer, clergyman, and merchant. Charles Caleb Colton passed on in 1832.
 
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“The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.” -Dale Rex Coman
 
Dale Rex Coman was born on 22 February 1906 in Connecticut, United States of America. He was married to Milna Coman. He became a college professor and a writer. His works include the books, “Pleasant River” (1966) and “The Endless Adventure” (1972). Dale Rex Coman passed on at 87 years of age on 23 April 1993 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America.
 
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“When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.” -Nadia Comaneci
 
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“We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.” -Cyril Connolly: “Enemies of Promise” (1938)
 
Cyril Connolly was born in 1903. He was an English writer. Cyril Connolly passed on in 1974.
 
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“Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich.” -Russell Conwell
 
“Ninety-eight out of one-hundred of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.” -Russell Conwell
 
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” -Russell Conwell

Russell Herman Conwell was born on 15 February 1843 in South Worthington, Massachusetts, United States of America. He converted from atheism to Christianity while a soldier in the American Civil War, and later became a lawyer, a Baptist minister, a writer, an orator (professional speaker), and a philanthropist. He was a pastor of the Baptist Temple, author of the well-known book, “Acres of Diamonds” (1890), and founder of Temple University in Philadelphia. Russell Herman Conwell passed on at 82 years of age on 6 December 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“She is one of my best friends. Why, I’ve known her ever since we were both the same age.” -Galen Cooper
 
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“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” -E. Joseph Cossman (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
 
“The greatest power is often simple patience.” -E. Joseph Cossman
 
Eli Joseph Cossman, also known as E. Joseph Cossman, was born on 13 April 1918. He was an American inventor, businessman, and a writer. He is known as the creator of the ant farm. Eli Joseph Cossman passed on at 84 years of age on 7 December 2002 in Palm Springs, California, United States of America.
 
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“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” -Margaret Cousins
 
Margaret Cousins was an Irish suffragist.
 
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“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
 
“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” -Stephen Covey
 
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” -Stephen Covey
 
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” -Stephen Covey
 
Stephen Richards Covey was born on 24 October 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He became a writer, a professional speaker, and a sales trainer; remembered as the author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” (15 August 1989). Stephen Richards Covey passed on at 79 years of age on 16 July 2012 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America.
 
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“The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow; and when we lie down at night, we may safely say to most of our troubles, ‘Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.’” -William Cowper
 
Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavor.
-William Cowper
 
William Cowper was born in 1731 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. His mother passed on when he was 6 years of age, so he was sent away from home to a boarding school, where he suffered so much from the cruelty of a bigger boy that he was obliged to leave that school for another. He studied at Westminster School with the intention of pursuing a career in law. When the first of many struggles with mental infirmity interfered with these plans, he found strength in Evangelical Christianity. Collaborating with John Newton, he became the foremost composer of eighteenth-century hymns, and was also a poet known for poems including “Yardley-Oak” and “The Task.” Mr. Cowper was a nephew of the poet Judith Madan. William Cowper passed on in 1800.
 
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“Eliminate the word can’t and you’ll be amazed at what you can do.” -Billy Cox
 
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“Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things. Go out and be challenged.” -Andrew Creighton
 
Andrew Creighton is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States of America.
 
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“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” -Crowfoot
 
Crowfoot was born in 1821. He was a member of the Blackfoot. Crowfoot passed on in 1890.
 
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“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” -E. E. Cummings


“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” -E. E. Cummings
 
“To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” -E. E. Cummings
 
Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name sometimes written in lowercase letters as e cummings, was born in 1894. He was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. Edward Estlin Cummings passed on in 1962.
 
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“Just when you’re beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.” -Will Cuppy
 
Will Cuppy was born in 1884. Will Cuppy passed on in 1949.
 
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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.” -Marie Curie
 
“The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace.” -Marie Curie
 
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.” -Marie Curie
 
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, also known as Marie Curie, was born on 7 November 1867. She was a French-Polish physicist and chemist. She is known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Marie Sklodowska-Curie passed on at 66 years of age on 4 July 1934.
 
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Quotations by Authors Da through Dz

10/22/2018

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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
 
Anthony J. D’Angelo is an American writer.
 
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“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” -Charles Darwin
 
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” -Charles Darwin
 
Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809. He was married to Emma Wedgwood (1808 - 1896) in 1839. He was an English naturalist, geologist, writer, and proponent of the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin passed on in 1882.
 
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“The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness, and courtesy will carry a young man farther than mere smartness.” -Henry P. Daveson
 
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“If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.” -Clinton Davidson
 
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“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.” -Bette Davis: “The Lonely Life” (1962), chapter 19
 
Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis was born on 5 April 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became an actress. Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis passed on at 81 years of age on 6 October 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
 
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People say, what is the sense of our small effort.
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions.
Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.
No one has a right to sit down and feel helpless.
There’s too much work to do.
-Dorothy Day
 
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“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” -Barbara De Angelis
 
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” -Barbara De Angelis
 
Barbara De Angelis was born on 4 March 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is a lecturer, a writer, and a television personality.
 
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“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” -Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat: as attributed in “The Guernsey Magazine” (November 1877)
 
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, was born on 17 September 1743 in Ribemont, France. He became a philosopher, a mathematician, and a political scientist. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, passed on at 50 years of age on 28 March 1794 in Bourg-la-Reine, France.
 
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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born on 1 May 1881 in Orcines, Auvergne, France. He became an idealist philosopher and a Jesuit priest, and trained as a paleontologist and a geologist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Point and further developed Vladimir Vernadsky’s concept of noosphere. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin passed on at 74 years of age on 10 April 1955 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” -Jean de la Bruyère
 
Jean de La Bruyère was born 16 August 1645 in Paris, Kingdom of France. He became an essayist and a moralist. Jean de La Bruyère passed on at 50 years of age on 11 May 1696 in Versailles, Kingdom of France.
 
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“Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.” - François de La Rochefoucauld: “Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales”
 
“Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.” -Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

François de La Rochefoucauld, also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, was born on 15 September 1613 in rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, France. He was a soldier and a writer of maxims and memoirs. François de La Rochefoucauld passed on at 66 years of age on 17 March 1680 in Paris, France.
 
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“Nothing is so contagious as an example.  We never do great good without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.” -Hugues De La Roche Foucauld
 
Hugues De La Roche Foucauld was born in C.E. 1020 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France.
 
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“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” -Guy de Maupassant
 
Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850. Guy de Maupassant passed on in 1893.
 
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“Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.”
-Cecil B. DeMille
 
Cecil Blount DeMille was born on 12 August 1881 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a silent movie director and a filmmaker. Cecil Blount DeMille passed on at 77 years of age on 21 January 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.” -Michel de Montaigne
 
“Saying is one thing and doing is another.” -Michel de Montaigne: “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (March 1580), Book 2, chapter 31
 
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on 28 February 1533. He was a French moralist and essayist. He is known for his book of essays, “Essais” (English: “Essays”). Michel Eyquem de Montaigne passed on at 58 years of age on 13 September 1592.
 
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“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
“Life is what tends toward the improbable.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
“When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, commonly known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon, France. He became an aviator and a novelist. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry passed on at 44 years of age on 31 July 1944 when his plane went down over the ocean south of Marseille, France.
 
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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” -Francis de Sales
 
Francis de Sales was born in 1567. He became a Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva. He is known for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the “Introduction to the Devout Life” and the “Treatise on the Love of God.” Francis de Sales passed on in 1622.
 
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“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.” -Madame de Staël
 
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (maiden name Necker), also known simply as Madame de Staël, was born on 22 April 1766 in Paris, France. She became a writer. Germaine de Staël passed on at 51 years of age on 14 July 1817 in Paris, France.
 
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In holy music’s golden speech
Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere

“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” -Peter De Vries
 
Peter De Vries was born on 27 February 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became an editor and a novelist. Peter De Vries passed on at 83 years of age on 28 September 1993 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.” -Eugene V. Debs

“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.” -Eugene V. Debs
 
Eugene Victor Debs was born in 1855. Eugene Victor Debs passed on in 1926.
 
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“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.” -Democritus
 
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.” -Democritus
 
Democritus of Abdera was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. Democritus of Abdera passed on in about 370 B.C.E.
 
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“Who will bell the cat?” -Eustache Deschamps
 
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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” -Richard M. DeVos
 
Richard Marvin Devos, Senior was born in 1926. Richard Marvin DeVos, Senior passed on in 2018.
 
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“Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.” -Lillian Dickson
 
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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.” -Denis Diderot: “Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu” (1745)
 
Denis Diderot was born in 1713. He was a French writer, art critic, and philosopher. He is known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the “Encyclopédie,” along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert. Denis Diderot passed on in 1784.
 
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“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” -Isak Dinesen
 
Isak Dinesen is a pseudonym of Karen von Blixen-Finecke, who was born in 1885. She was a Danish writer. Karen von Blixen-Finecke passed on in 1962.
 
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” -Benjamin Disraeli: speech (24 June 1870)
 
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
“There is no education like adversity.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.” -Benjamin Disraeli: “Sybil” (1845), Book V, Chapter IV
 
“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
Benjamin Disraeli was born on 21 December 1804 in Bloomsbury, London, England. He was married to Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis in 1839. He became a British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874 - 1880), a statesman, and a novelist. Benjamin Disraeli passed on at 76 years of age on 19 April 1881 in Mayfair, London, England.
 
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“The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.” -Isaac D’Israeli
 
Isaac D’Israeli was born in 1766. He was an English writer and the father of Benjamin Disraeli. Isaac D’Israeli passed on in 1848.
 
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“The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.” -Dorothy Dix

“You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.” -Dorothy Dix
 
Dorothy Dix is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, who was born on 18 November 1861 in Woodstock, Tennessee, United States of America. She became an advice columnists and a journalist. Dorothy Dix passed on at 90 years of age on 16 December 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
 
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“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne.
 
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” -John Donne: “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (1624), ‘Meditation XVII’
 
John Donne (jŏn dŭn) was born in about June 1572 in England. He was married to Ann More in 1601. He became a soldier, a courtier, a poet, a satirist, and a dean of Saint Paul’s. He became a Catholic priest and later converted to the Anglican faith. He is known as the author of “Divine Poems” (1607) and “A Hymn to God the Father” (1623). John Donne passed on at about 58 years of age on 31 March 1631.
 
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“With love one can live even without happiness.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
“The soul is healed by being with children.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on 11 November 1821 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He became a novelist, a short story writer, a journalist, and a publisher and editor of magazines. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky passed on at 59 years of age on 9 February 1881.
 
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“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” -Norman Douglas: “South Wind” (1917), chapter 6
 
George Norman ‘Norman’ Douglas was born on 8 December 1868 in Thüringen, Austria-Hungary. He became a British novelist, travel writer, and essayist. He is known for his novel, “South Wind” (1917). George Norman ‘Norman’ Douglas passed on at 83 years of age on 7 February 1952 in Capri, Italy.
 
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.  It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” -William O. Douglas
 
William Orville Douglas was born in 1898. He was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. William Orville Douglas passed on in 1980.
 
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“A gentleman will not insult me and no man not a gentleman can insult me.” -Frederick Douglass

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” -Frederick Douglass
 
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass
 
Frederick Douglass is a pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who was born in 1817 in the United States of America. He became a social reformer, a professional speaker, and a writer. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey passed on in 1895.
 
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.” -Robert Downey, Junior
 
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“Contentment is the greatest wealth.” -Thomas Draxe
 
Thomas Draxe was born on an unknown date. He was an English Christian Puritan clergyman and writer. Thomas Draxe passed away on or shortly before 29 January 1618.
 
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“A greater poverty than that caused by money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the goodness, the beauty, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.” -Thomas Dreier
 
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“The ideal day never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.” -Horatio Dresser
 
Horatio Willis Dresser was born on 15 January 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine, United States of America as a son of Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. He became a New Thought religious leader and a writer. He is known for his books including “The Power of Silence” (1895). Horatio Willis Dresser passed on at 88 years of age on 30 March 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.” -Peter F. Drucker

“We can’t make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.” -Peter F. Drucker
 
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born on 19 November 1909 in Austria. He became an American management consultant, an educator, and a writer. Peter Ferdinand Drucker passed on at 85 years of age on 11 November 2005.
 
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“Happiness . . . consists in giving, and in serving others.” -Henry Drummond
 
“You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” -Henry Drummond
 
Henry Drummond was born in 1851. He was a Scottish evangelist, writer, and lecturer. He is known for his book, “The Greatest Thing in the World,” which encourages people to follow God’s two great commandments: to love God and to love each other. Henry Drummond passed on in 1897.
 
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Happy the man and happy he alone
He who can call today his own:
He who secure within can say
Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today.
-John Dryden

“They say everything in the world is good for something.” -John Dryden: “The Spanish Friar” (1681), Act 3, scene 2
 
John Dryden (jŏn drīdꞋn) was born on 9 August 1631. He was married to Elizabeth Howard in 1663. He became an English poet, dramatist, translator, and literary critic. He excelled in comedy, heroic tragedy, satiric verse, translation, and literary criticism. He was poet laureate of England from 1668 to 1688, and wrote some of his best-known poetic satires during that time, among them, “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681) and “The Medal” (1682). John Dryden passed on at 68 years of age on 1 May 1700.

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“The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.” -Paul Duffy

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“The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.” -John Foster Dulles

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“One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education, never.” -Alexandre Dumas
 
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. He was a French novelist and dramatist. He is known for his adventure novel, “Les Trois Mousquetaires” (English: “The Three Musketeers”) (1844). Alexandre Dumas passed on in 1870.

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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you!” -Isadora Duncan: as quoted in Franklin Rosemont, editor: “Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan” (2 June 1981)
 
Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan was born on 27 May 1877 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a dancer and lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until she passed on. Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan passed on at 50 years of age on 14 September 1927 in Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
 
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“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
 
“Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
 
Finley Peter Dunne was born as simply Peter Dunne on 10 July 1867 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, later adding his mother’s maiden name to his, calling himself Peter Finley Dunne, and eventually reversing the order and calling himself Finley Peter Dunne. He became a journalist and a humorist. Finley Peter Dunne passed on at 68 years of age on 24 April 1936 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.” -Lewis Dunning
 
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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -William C. Durant
 
William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant was born on 8 December 1861. He became a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, and created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars; and the co-founder of General Motors with Frederic L. Smith, and of Chevrolet with Louis Chevrolet. He also founded Frigidaire. William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant passed on at 85 years of age on 18 March 1947.
 
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“It is an error to suppose that books have no influence; it is a slow influence, like flowing water carving out a canyon, but it tells more and more with every year; and no one can pass an hour a day in the society of sages and heroes without being lifted up a notch or two by the company he has kept.” -Will Durant
 
“My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus . . . Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.” -Will Durant
 
“Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.” -Will Durant
 
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.” -Will Durant: “The Story of Civilization,” Volume II, “The Life of Greece” (1939), Chapter XII: Work and Wealth in Athens, page 277
 
“Sixty years ago, I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant: as quoted in ‘Books: The Great Gadfly’ published in “Time” (8 October 1965) magazine (a book review of Will and Ariel Durant: “The Age of Voltaire” (1935))
 
“The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.” -Will Durant


“Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.” -Will Durant
 
“When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.” -Will Durant
 
Ariel Durant was born as Chaya Kaufman on 10 May 1898 in Khmel’nyts’ka, Ukraine. She became an American historian and writer, and co-author of several written works with her husband William James ‘Will’ Durant. Ariel Durant passed on at 83 years of age on 25 October 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
 
William James ‘Will’ Durant was born on 5 November 1885 in North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a historian and a writer. He co-authored several written works with his wife Ariel Durant. William James ‘Will’ Durant passed on at 96 years of age on 7 November 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
 
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“The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.” -Timothy Dwight (similar quotation attributed to William Lyon Phelps)
 
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“Don’t allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.” -Wayne Dyer

“Surround yourself with people who are doers!” -Wayne Dyer

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer
 
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” -Wayne Dyer
 
Wayne Walter Dyer was born in 1940. He is an American psychotherapist, writer, and lecturer.
 
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10/21/2018

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“Every day may not be good . . . but there’s something good in every day.” -Alice Morse Earle
 
Alice Morse Earle was born in 1851. She became a historian and a writer. Alice Morse Earle passed on in 1911.
 
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“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” -Max Eastman
 
Max Eastman was born in 1883. Max Eastman passed on in 1969.
 
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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban: speech (16 December 1970) in London, England
 
“You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way.” -Abba Eban
 
Abba Eban was born as Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban on 2 February 1915 in Cape Town, Union of South Africa. He became an Israeli minister of foreign affairs (1966 - 1974). Abba Eban passed on at 87 years of age on 17 November 2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
 
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“We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.” -Arthur Stanley Eddington: “Space, Time, and Gravitation”
 
Arthur Stanley Eddington was born on 28 December 1882 in Kendal, Westmorland, England (now Kendel, Cumbria, England). He became an astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician. The Eddington Limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, and the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, are named in his honor. Arthur Stanley Eddington passed on at 61 years of age on 22 November 1944 in Cambridge, England.
 
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“The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.” -Mary Baker Eddy
 
Mary Baker Eddy was born in 1821. She became the founder of Christian Science, a religious movement in the United States. She wrote the movement’s textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” (1875), and in 1879 founded the Church of Christ, Scientists. In 1908, she founded the Christian Science Publishing Society, which continues to publish a number of periodicals, including “The Christian Science Monitor” (1908). Mary Baker Eddy passed on in 1910.
 
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“Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
“Service is what life is all about.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
Marian Wright Edelman was born in 1937. She is a President of the Children’s Defense Fund.
 
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“If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.” -Bob Edwards
 
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“The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.” -LaVell Edwards
 
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“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” -Tryon Edwards
 
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.” -Tryon Edwards
 
Tryon Edwards was born in 1809. He became a writer. Tyron Edwards passed on in 1894.
 
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“Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.” -Ilya Ehrenburg
 
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“It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science, which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the Universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption.” -Loren C. Eiseley: “Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It” (1958)
 
Loren Corey Eiseley was born on 3 September 1907 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America. He became an anthropologist, a teacher, a philosopher, and a writer. Loren Corey Eiseley passed on at 69 years of age on 9 July 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” -T. Harv Eker
 
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” -T. Harv Eker
 
“The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.” -T. Harv Eker
 
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“If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” -Leon Eldred
 
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“How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!” -George Eliot
 
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, 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 a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” -George Eliot
 
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” -George Eliot
 
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” -George Eliot
 
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” -George Eliot
 
“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” -George Eliot: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 563
 
“There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.” -George Eliot
 
“Those who trust us educate us.” -George Eliot: “Daniel Deronda” (1876)
 
“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?” -George Eliot
 
“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.” -George Eliot
 
“You told me the truth when you said to me once, ‘There’s a sort of wrong that can never be made up for.’” -George Eliot: “Adam Bede” (1859)
 
George Eliot is a pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross, who was born on 22 November 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She became a novelist and a poet. She is known for her novel “Middlemarch” (1871 - 1872) among others. She was married to J. W. Cross in 1880. Mary Anne Evans passed on at 61 years of age on 22 December 1880 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England.
 
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
-T. S. Eliot: “The Four Quartets”
 
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.” -T. S. Eliot
 
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
 
Thomas Stearns Eliot (tŏm’ǝs stûrnz ěl’ē-ǝt), also known as T. S. Eliot, was born in 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. He took up permanent residence in England in 1914, and became a British subject in 1927. He became an editor, a literary critic, a dramatist, and a poet. He is known as the author of, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), “The Wasteland” (1922), and “The Four Quartets” (1936 - 1942). Thomas Stearns Eliot passed on in 1965.

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“I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, I may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.” -Elizabeth I: lines written in a copy of the “Epistles of Saint Paul” (about August 1576)
 
Elizabeth I was born in 1533. She became a queen of England and Ireland (1558 - 1603). Elizabeth I passed on in 1603.
 
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“It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.” -Elisabeth Elliot
 
Elisabeth Elliot is a writer.
 
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“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” -Walter Elliott: as quoted in “The Spiritual Life: Doctrine and Practice of Christian Perfection” (1918)
 
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -Albert Ellis
 
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“There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.” -Alice Thomas Ellis
 
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” -Havelock Ellis
 
Henry Havelock Ellis was born on 2 February 1859 in Croydon, Surrey, England. He became an essayist and a psychologist. Henry Havelock Ellis passed on at 80 years of age on 8 July 1939 in Hintlesham, Suffolk, England.
 
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.” -Harlan Ellison (similar quotation attributed to Louis Pasteur)
 
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“Do what you are afraid to do.” -Mary Emerson
 
Mary Moody Emerson was born on 25 August 1774 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America. She was an aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mary Moody Emerson passed on at 88 years of age on 1 May 1863 in Waterford, Maine, United States of America.
 
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“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.” -Rita Emmett
 
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“I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.” -Nathanael Emmons
 
Nathanael Emmons was born in 1745. His first name is sometimes spelled as Nathaniel. Nathanael Emmons passed on in 1840.
 
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“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.” -Ted Engstrom
 
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“They hate whom they fear.” -Quintus Ennius: “Thyestes”
 
Quintus Ennius was born in 239 B.C.E. He became a Roman poet, a translator, and a teacher. Quintus Ennius passed on in 169 B.C.E.
 
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“Of all the means to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.” -Epicurus
 
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” -Epicurus
 
Epicurus was born in 341 B.C.E. He became a philosopher of ancient Greece. He founded the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Epicurus passed on in 270 B.C.E.
 
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“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.” -Desiderius Erasmus
 
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.” -Desiderius Erasmus
 
“Out of sight, out of mind.” -Desiderius Erasmus: “Adagia” (1500)
 
“When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” -Desiderius Erasmus: “Opus Epistolarum” (1529)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was born on 28 October 1466. He became a Dutch Catholic priest, a theologian, and a social reformer. Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus passed on at 69 years of age on 12 July 1536.
 
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“I found that I could find the energy - that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, ‘I can do it . . . I can do it . . . I can do it!’” -Jon Erickson
 
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“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” -Milton Erickson
 
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“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” -Sven Goran Eriksson
 
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“There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.” -John Erskine
 
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“Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith.” -Ralph Erskine
 
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“My work is a game, a very serious game.” -M. C. Escher
 
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“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” -attributed to Euclid
 
Euclid was born in 325 B.C.E. He became a mathematician of ancient Greece. Euclid passed on in 265 B.C.E.
 
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.” -Euripides
 
“It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.” -Euripides
 
“No one is happy all his life long.” -Euripides
 
“Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.” -Euripides
 
“The good and wise lead quite lives.” -Euripides
 
“Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked.” -Euripides
 
Euripides was born in about 480 B.C.E. in Salamis. He became a tragedian of ancient Greece. He created more than 90 plays, of which at least 18 complete plays are known to exist at present. Among them are “Medea” (431 B.C.E.), “Hippolytus” (428 B.C.E.), “Electra” (about 420 B.C.E.), “The Trojan Women” (about 415 B.C.E.), and “Bach” (405 B.C.E.). Euripides passed on at about 74 years of age in about 406 B.C.E. in Macedonia.
 
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“Only the stoical and the cynical can preserve a measure of stability; yet stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. So none escapes.” -Bergen Evans: “The Natural History of Nonsense” (1945)
 
Bergen Baldwin Evans was born on 19 September 1904 in Franklin, Ohio, United States of America. He became a lexicographer, a teacher of English, and a television show host. Bergen Baldwin Evans passed on at 73 years of age on 4 February 1978 in Highland Park, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“Perhaps any of us could get along with perfect people. But our task is to get along with imperfect people.” -Richard L. Evans
 
Richard Louis Evans was born in 1906. He became a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the president of Rotary International, and was the writer, producer, and announcer of “Music and the Spoken Word” for forty-one years. Richard Louis Evans passed on in 1971.
 
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“It is the doing, not just the knowing that counts.” -Henry B. Eyring
 
Henry Bennion Eyring was born on 31 May 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. He is an educator, a writer, and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
 
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10/20/2018

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“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.” -Frederick William Faber
 
Frederick William Faber was born in 1814. He was an English hymn writer and theologian. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism, and became a member of its priesthood. His is known for the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” (1849). Frederick William Faber passed on in 1863.
 
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“Enjoy life by limiting your emotional baggage to a small carry-on.” -Tim Fargo
 
“Forget your weaknesses, increase your strengths, and be the most awesome you that you can be.” -Tim Fargo
 
“If you think you’ll laugh about it someday, go ahead and start today.” -Tim Fargo
 
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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.” -William Faulkner
 
William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner was born in 1897. He was an American short story writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet. William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner passed on at 64 years of age on 6 July 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi.
 
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“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences . . . Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.” -James E. Faust: ‘Will I Be Happy,’ published in “Ensign” (May 1987) magazine, page 80
 
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“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.” -William A. Feather
 
“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.” -William A. Feather
 
“If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.” -William A. Feather
 
“If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.” -William A. Feather
 
“Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got.” -William A. Feather: as attributed in “Forbes” (1984)
 
“The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you’re not.” -William A. Feather
 
William Arthur Feather was born on 25 August 1889 in Jamestown, New York, United States of America. He was married to Ruth Elizabeth Presley on 30 October 1912. He became a publisher and a writer. He spent much of his life in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, where he owned a printing business and published, “The William Feather Magazine.” William Arthur Feather passed on at 91 years of age on 7 January 1981.
 
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“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived (oh, not deprived but rather underprivileged). Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” -Jules Feiffer
 
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don’t want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.” -Federico Fellini
 
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“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.” -Owen Feltham
 
Owen Feltham was born in 1602. Owen Feltham passed on in 1668.
 
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Your body cannot heal without play.
Your mind cannot heal without laughter.
Your soul cannot heal without joy.
-Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
 
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“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” -Tim Ferriss
 
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“If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.” -Wes Fesler
 
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“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” -Tina Fey
 
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“Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.” -Joanna Field
 
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“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.” -Henry Fielding
 
“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.” -Henry Fielding
 
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.” -Henry Fielding
 
Henry Fielding was born in 1707. He was married to Charlotte Cradock in 1734. He was an English novelist and dramatist. He is known for his humor and satire, and as the writer of the novel “Tom Jones.” Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded what some have called London’s first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate. Henry Fielding passed on in 1754.
 
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“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.” -Debbie Fields
 
Debbie Fields is the founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
 
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“We are making stupendous effort to extend the physical and economic life of the many. But of what high consequence is that extension unless the activity of the mind is also extended unless we strive ever to live better rather than simply to make a better living?” -John H. Finley
 
John H. Finley is a doctor.
 
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“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” -Doug Firebaugh
 
“Goals are simply an image in your mind that need to be crystallized on paper by your hand . . . and embraced with your heart . . .” -Doug Firebaugh
 
“The future looks bright . . . for those who choose to shine . . . and become a star.” -Doug Firebaugh
 
Doug Firebaugh was born on 9 June 1968 in Birmingham, Michigan, United States of America.
 
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“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.” -John Fischer
 
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“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” -Ella Fitzgerald
 
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
 
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“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, also known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He was married to Zelda Sayre in 1920. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a screenwriter. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald passed on at 44 years of age on 21 December 1940 in Hollywood, California, United States of America.

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“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days, when out of dejection and despair, you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” -Gustave Flaubert
 
Gustave Flaubert was born in 1821. He was a French novelist. Gustave Flaubert passed on in 1880.
 
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“The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.” -Peggy Fleming
 
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“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.” -Jane Fonda
 
“It’s never too late never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” -Jane Fonda
 
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“Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.” -B. C. Forbes
 
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” -B. C. Forbes
 
“The man who has done his level best . . . is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.” -B. C. Forbes
 
“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.” -B. C. Forbes
 
Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ Forbes, also known as B. C. Forbes, was born on 14 May 1880 in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He became an American journalist, financier, writer, publisher, and the founder of “Forbes” magazine. Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ Forbes passed on at 73 years of age on 6 May 1954 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“A free ride is always very expensive.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
 
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
 
“By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
 
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was born on 19 August 1919. He became the publisher of “Forbes” magazine, which was founded by his father, B. C. Forbes. Later, the magazine was run by Malcolm’s son, Steve Forbes. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes passed on at 70 years of age on 24 February 1990.
 
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“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.” -Harrison Ford
 
“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I’ve got a home that I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.” -Harrison Ford
 
Harrison Ford was born in 1942. He is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as fictional characters Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series.
 
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“We’re not lost. We’re locationally challenged.” -John M. Ford
 
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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” -E. M. Forster
 
“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.” -E. M. Forster: “Howards End” (1910)
 
Edward Morgan Forster, commonly known as E. M. Forster, was born in 1879. He was an English novelist, short story writer, essayists, and librettist. His 1908 novel “A Room with a View” is his most optimistic work, while “A Passage to India” brought him his greatest success. Edward Morgan Forster passed on in 1970.
 
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“At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
 
“Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
 
Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on 24 May 1878 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America. He became a Protestant Christian minister in the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches and a writer. Harry Emerson Fosdick passed on at 91 years of age on 5 October 1969 in Bronxville, New York, United States of America.
 
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“If you could only love enough, you would be the most powerful person in the world.” -Emmet Fox
 
Emmett Fox was born in 1886. He became a scientist, a philosopher, and a writer. Emmett Fox passed on in 1951.
 
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“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” -Michael J. Fox
 
Michael J. Fox is a pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox, who was born on 9 June 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an American actor, writer, and producer.
 
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“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.” -Anatole France
 
“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” -Anatole France
 
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.” -Anatole France: as quoted in Haakon M. Chevalier: “The Ironic Temper: Anatole France and His Time” (1932)
 
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” -Anatole France: “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”
 
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread.” -Anatole France

Anatole France is a pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault, who was born in 1844 in Paris, France. He became a journalist, novelist, poet, and critic. Jacques Anatole François Thibault passed on in 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire.
 
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“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.” -Francis de Sales
 
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” -Francis de Sales
 
Francis de Sales was born in 1567. He was a French Catholic bishop of Geneva. Francis de Sales passed on in 1622.
 
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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” -Francis of Assisi
 
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible. Suddenly, you are doing the impossible.” -Francis of Assisi: as attributed in “Reader’s Digest” (1987)
 
Francis of Assisi was born in 1181. He was an Italian Catholic monk, friar, and preacher. He founded the Franciscan Order of Priests, the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis. Francis of Assisi passed on in 1226. He was made a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
 
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“The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.” -Felix Frankfurter
 
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” -Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter was born in 1882. Felix Frankfurter passed on in 1965.
 
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“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl
 
Viktor Emil Frankl was born in 1905. He was a Holocaust survivor. Viktor Emil Frankl passed on in 1997.
 
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“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” -Grant Frazier
 
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“Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life’s most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.” -Chriswell Freeman
 
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“Success is not measured by what you accomplish. It’s measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain your struggle against the odds.” -Jerry Frenz
 
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“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.” -Sigmund Freud
 
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” -Sigmund Freud
 
“Maturity is the ability to live with ambiguity.” -Sigmund Freud
 
“We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things.” -Sigmund Freud: “Civilization and Its Discontents” (1930)
 
“When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.” -Sigmund Freud
 
Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856. He was an Austrian psychiatrist and the originator of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud passed on at 83 years of age on 23 September 1939.
 
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” -Milton Friedman
 
“The long-range solution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” -Milton Friedman: as quoted in “US News & World Report” (March 1977)
 
Milton Friedman was born in 1912. He was an American economist. Milton Friedman passed on in 2006.
 
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“If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won’t even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know.” -Patricia Fripp
 
“It’s better to do something for nothing than nothing for nothing.” -Patricia Fripp
 
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“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” -Erich Fromm
 
“Who knows whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm
 
Erich Seligmann Fromm was born on 23 March 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. He became a philosopher, a social psychologist, and a psychoanalyst. Erich Seligmann Fromm passed on at 79 years of age on 18 March 1980 in Muralto, Switzerland.
 
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“Don’t aim for success. If you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost

“He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed.” -David Frost
 
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.” -James Froud
 
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A man convinced against his will,
     stands opposed ever still.
A man convinced he is right,
     gives the effort twice the fight.
-Jeffrey Fry
 
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“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!” -Margaret Fuller
 
Margaret Fuller was born in 1810. Margaret Fuller passed on in 1850.
 
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“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.” -Thomas Fuller
 
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.” -Thomas Fuller
 
“He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost.” -Thomas Fuller
 
“He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.” -Thomas Fuller
 
Thomas Fuller was born in 1608. Thomas Fuller passed on in 1661.
 
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“Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
 
“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
 
“He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” -Thomas Fuller (1732): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
 
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
 
“It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2916
 
“Men hate those they have hurt.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 3395
 
Thomas Fuller was born on 24 June 1654 in Rosehill, Sussex, England. He became a physician, a preacher, and an adage collector. Thomas Fuller passed on at 80 years of age on 17 September 1734.
 
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“Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders.” -Frank Furedi: ‘Making a Virtue of Vice’ published in “The Spectator” (12 Jan 2002)
 
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10/19/2018

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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
 
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“The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart.” -Susan Gale
 
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“Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” -Galen
 
Aelius Galenus, also known as Claudius Galenus and Galen of Pergamon or simply as Galen, was born in C.E. 129 in Pergamon, Turkey. He became a Greek physician, a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer on medicine and philosophy, in the Roman Empire. Galen passed on in C.E. 199 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
 
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“There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened and a wounded heart.” -Marguerite Gardiner
 
Marguerite Gardiner was born as Margaret Power in 1789 in County Tipperary, Ireland. She became a novelist, a journalist, and a literary hostess. Marguerite Gardiner passed on in 1849.
 
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“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” -Ava Gardner: as quoted in Roland Flamini: “Ava” (1983), chapter 8
 
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“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” -John W. Gardner
 
“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
 
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
 
“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
 
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner: “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961)
 
“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
 
John William Gardner was born on 8 October 1912 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a government administrator. He is known as the founder of Independent Sector and the watchdog group Common Cause. John William Gardner passed on at 89 years of age on 16 February 2002 in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
 
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“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” -Kim Garst
 
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
 
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. He became a mathematician and a physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss passed on at 77 years of age on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, Germany.
 
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“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” -Shakti Gawain
 
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“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look and I have never met a steadily logical person.” -Martha Gellhorn
 
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold Geneen
 
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” -Harold Geneen
 
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“If you listen to the never-do’s, it’s never done.” -David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George was born in 1863 in Wales. He became a British Prime Minister (1916 - 1922). David Lloyd George passed on in 1945.
 
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“True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.” -George Gershwin

Ira Gershwin was born in 1896. He was an American lyricist. Ira Gershwin passed on in 1983.
 
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“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“I buy when other people are selling.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being conformist.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty
 
Jean Paul Getty was born on 15 December 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He became an industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company, and an art collector. Jean Paul Getty passed on at 83 years of age on 6 June 1976 in Surrey, England.
 
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“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.” -Albert Giacometti
 
Albert Giacometti was a sculptor.
 
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“No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.” -James Gibbons
 
“There must be no tampering with the delicate machinery by which religious liberty and equality are secured, and no fostering of any spirit which would tend to destroy that machinery.” -James Gibbons
 
James Gibbons was born on 23 July 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He served as the Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He became a cardinal in 1886. James Gibbons passed on at 86 years of age on 24 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
 
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“Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
 
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran
 
“There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran
 
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883. He emigrated to the United States of America with his family in 1895. He never married. He became a Lebanese-born American artist, poet, novelist, and philosopher. Kahlil Gibran passed on in 1931.
 
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
 
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“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide
 
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide: “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
 
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, an essayist, a dramatist, and a critic. André Paul Guillaume Gide passed on at 81 years of age on 19 February 1951 in Paris, France.
 
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He did nothing in particular,
And did it very well
-W. S. Gilbert
 
“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
 
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He became an English dramatist, a librettist, a writer of comic and satirical poetry, and an illustrator. He is known for the fourteen comic operas he produced in collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include “H. M. S. Pinafore” (25 May 1878) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (31 December 1879), and The Mikado (14 March 1885). William Schwenck Gilbert passed on in 1911.

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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.” -Virginia Gildersleeve
 
Virginia Gildersleeve was born in 1877. Virginia Gildersleeve passed on in 1965.
 
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You may have tangible wealth untold;
     Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
     I had a mother who read to me.
-Strickland Gillian
 
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“Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.” -Jerry Gillies
 
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.” -Dorothy Gilman

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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Gilmore
 
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg
 
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926. Allen Ginsberg passed on in 1997.
 
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Bhagavad Gita (about B.C.E. 400)
 
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“People aren’t afraid of failure, they just don’t know how to succeed.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
 
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“Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.” -Rudolph Giuliani
 
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“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” -Earle J. Glade
 
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures, and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
 
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. He became a politician. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four times (1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; and 1892 - 1894). Mr. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister, at 84 years of age when he resigned for the last time. He had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. William Ewart Gladstone passed on at 88 years of age on 19 May 1898 in Hawarden Castle, Wales.
 
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“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” -Ellen Glasgow: “The Shadowy Third” (1923)
 
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22 April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. She never married and never had children. She became a novelist. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow passed on at 72 years of age on 21 November 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
 
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“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow
 
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
 
“The truth will ouch.” -Arnold H. Glasow
 
Arnold Henry Glasow was born on 2 July 1905 in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was married to Vera Glasow (maiden name Eade (1903 - 2012)). He became a writer and a businessman. He created a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses, and which they could then customize to become their own in-house publications. He was a regular contributor to the various humor sections of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine. He is known for his book, “Glasow’s Gloombusters” (28 June 1995). Arnold Henry Glasow passed on at 94 years of age on 4 November 1999 in Freeport, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.” -Germain G. Glidden
 
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“On the other side of fear lies freedom!” -J. B. Glossinger
 
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“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” -Gail Godwin
 
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” -Gail Godwin
 
Gail Kathleen Godwin was born on 18 June 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. She is avid swimmer and an Episcopalian by faith. She became a novelist and a short story writer.
 
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“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavor to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.” -William Godwin
 
William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. He became a social philosopher, a political journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a publisher of children’s books. William Godwin passed on at 80 years of age on 7 April 1836 in London, England.
 
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed.” -Ray Goforth
 
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” -Thaddeus Golas
 
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” -Arthur Golden
 
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” -William Golding
 
William Golding was born in 1911. He was an English novelist. William Golding passed on in 1993.
 
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“Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Traveler: Or, A Prospect of Society” (1764)
 
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
 
“I was tired of being always wise.” -Oliver Goldsmith
 
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.” -Oliver Goldsmith
 
“The greatest object in the Universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity: yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
 
Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was disfigured by smallpox at 8 years of age. He was an Anglican by faith. He became a physician, a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist. He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, including, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.

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“Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” -Paul Goodman
 
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman: “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
 
Paul Goodman was born on 9 September 1911. He was an American writer and poet. Paul Goodman passed on at 60 years of age on 2 August 1972.
 
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -Nadine Gordimer
 
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. She was Jewish by faith. She became a novelist and a writer. Nadine Gordimer passed on at 90 years of age on 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
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“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -Katharine Graham
 
Katharine Graham was born in 1917. Katharine Graham passed on in 2001.
 
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“I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment.” -Stedman Graham
 
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“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.” -Amy Grant
 
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“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” -Cary Grant
 
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant
 
Cary Grant is a pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach, who was born in 1904. He was an English stage actor and a Hollywood film actor. He became an American citizen in 1942. Archibald Alexander Leach passed on in 1986.
 
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
 
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things . . . Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-to-day events, sunshine on the field, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” -David Grayson
 
David Grayson was born in 1890. David Grayson passed on in 1990.
 
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“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” -Horace Greeley
 
“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.” -Horace Greeley
 
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are substantially their only resources.” -Horace Greeley
 
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.” -Horace Greeley
 
Horace Greeley was born in 1811. He was an editor of the “New-York Tribune” newspaper and a United States Congress member representing New York State. Horace Greeley passed on in 1872.
 
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“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” -Dennis Green
 
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“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.” -Graham Greene
 
Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene was born in 1904. He was an English writer of more than 25 novels. Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene passed on in 1991.
 
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.” -Gregory I
 
Gregory I, also known as Pope Gregory I and Gregory the Great, was born in C.E. 540. Gregory I passed on in C.E. 604.
 
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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” -Wilfred Grenfell
 
Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865. Wilfred Grenfell passed on in 1940.
 
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” -Marilyn Grey
 
Marilyn Grey is a motivational speaker
 
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. Griswold
 
Alfred Whitney Griswold.
 
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“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” -Matthew Keith Groves
 
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“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” -Robert Grudin
 
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
 
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10/18/2018

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“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.” -Ken Hakuta
 
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“Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease.” -Thomas C. Haliburton: “Sam Slick’s Wise Saws and Modern Instances” (1853)
 
Thomas C. Haliburton was born in 1796. He became a Canadian politician, judge, and writer. He is known as the creator of the literary character Sam Slick. Thomas C. Haliburton passed on in 1865.
 
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“Try to be of some use to others.” -Joseph Hall: as attributed in Maturin M. Ballou: “Edge-Tools of Speech” (1886), page 41
 
Joseph Hall was born on 1 July 1574 in Leicestershire, Kingdom of England. He was married to Elizabeth Winiffe in 1603. He became a bishop, a moral philosopher, a poet, and a satirist. Joseph Hall passed on at 82 years of age on 8 September 1656 in Heigham, Norfolk, England.
 
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“I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.” -Fitz-Greene Halleck
 
Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in 1790. Fitz-Greene Halleck passed on in 1867.
 
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“There aren’t any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.” -William F. Halsey
 
William Frederick ‘Bull’ Halsey, Junior was born in 1882. He became an American naval commander who led campaigns in the Pacific during World War 2. William Frederick ‘Bull’ Halsey, Junior passed on in 1959.
 
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“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.” -Alexander Hamilton: letter (29 December 1802) to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
 
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” -Alexander Hamilton (28 July 1788): as quoted in “Elliot’s Debates,” volume 2, page 364
 
“It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.” -Alexander Hamilton: letter (11 November 1794) to George Washington
 
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” -Alexander Hamilton
 
“We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.” -Alexander Hamilton: as quoted in “The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern” (1958)
 
Alexander Hamilton was born on 11 January 1755 or 1757 in Charlestown, Nevis, British West Indies. He became a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, major author of the “Federalist Papers,” and the first secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789 - 1795). Alexander Hamilton passed on at about 47 or 49 years of age on 12 July 1804 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Don’t believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.” -William Peter Hamilton: as quoted in Michael Wolff: “The Man Who Owns the News” (2008)
 
William Peter Hamilton was born in 1867. He became an editor of “The Wall Street Journal” newspaper. William Peter Hamilton passed on in 1929.
 
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A bell’s not a bell until you ring it
A song’s not a song until you sing it
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
Love isn’t love until you give it away!
-Oscar Hammerstein
 
Oscar Hammerstein II was born in 1895. He was an American songwriter. Oscar Hammerstein II passed on in 1960.
 
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“Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” -Lorraine Hansberry
 
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“It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.” -G. H. Hardy
 
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“That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.” -Thomas Hardy
 
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“A winner paces himself; a loser has only two speeds: hysterical and lethargic.” -Sydney J. Harris
 
Sydney Justin Harris was born on 14 September 1917 in London, England. He immigrated to the United States of America with his family at 5 years of age. He became a syndicated columnist under the heading “Strictly Personal” and a journalist. Sydney Justin Harris passed away at 69 years of age on 7 December 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.” -William Hazlitt
 
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” -William Hazlitt
 
“There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it.” -William Hazlitt
 
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.” -William Hazlitt
 
“Well, I’ve had a happy life.” -William Hazlitt: as quoted in William Carew Hazlitt: “Memoirs of William Hazlitt: With Portions of His Correspondence” (1867)
 
William Hazlitt was born in 1778. He was married to Sarah Stoddart in 1808. He became an English painter, essayist, literary critic, drama critic, art critic, and social commentator. William Hazlitt passed on in 1830.

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“Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.” -William Randolph Hearst
 
William Randolph Hearst was born in 1863. He became a publisher. William Randolph Hearst passed on in 1951.
 
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“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” -Robert A. Heinlein
 
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in 1907. He was an American science fiction writer. Robert Anson Heinlein passed on in 1988.
 
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“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.” -Werner Heisenberg
 
Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in 1901. He was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles, and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957. Werner Karl Heisenberg passed on in 1976.
 
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“A friend is one who does not laugh when you are in a ridiculous position.” -Arthur Helps
 
Arthur Helps was born in 1813 in Streatham, South London, England. He became a writer and a clerk for the Privy Council. Arthur Helps passed on in 1875.
 
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“Courage is grace under pressure.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
“If my books didn’t sell, I think I’d be a bear trainer. I like to wrestle with bears.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America. He became a journalist and a writer. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. An additional three of his novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Ernest Miller Hemingway passed on at 61 years of age on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum Idaho, United States of America.
 
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“After a storm comes a calm.” -Matthew Henry
 
Matthew Henry was born in 1662. He became a writer. Matthew Henry passed on in 1714.
 
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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” -Audrey Hepburn
 
Audrey Hepburn-Ruston was born on 4 May 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She became a British actress, dancer, and model. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston passed on at 63 years of age on 20 January 1993 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
 
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“A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees farther of the two.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“All things require skill but an appetite.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 374
 
“Although the Sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 322
 
“An idle youth, a needy age.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“Be useful where thou livest.” -George Herbert: “The Church Porch,” line 325
“Emptie vessels sound most.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 639
 
“Every mile is two in Winter.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 942
 
“For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 495
 
“Good words are worth much, and cost little.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 155
 
“Half the world knows not how the other half lives.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 901
 
“He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 305
 
“He that lives in hope danceth without music.” -George Herbert
 
“He that lives well is learned enough.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 86
 
“He thinkes not well that thinkes not againe.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 830
 
“Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 971

“Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 533
 
“Light burthens long borne growe heavie.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), number 15
 
“Never had ill workman good tooles.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 67
 
“One sword keepes another in the sheath.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 719
 
“Poverty is no sinne.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 838
 
“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” -George Herbert
 
“Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 621
 
“The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 386
 
“The great would have none great, and the little all little.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 940
 
“The mill cannot grind with water that’s past.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 153
 
“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“To a boyling pot flies come not.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 123
 
“Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
George Herbert was born on 3 April 1593 at Montgomery Castle in Wales. He became an Anglican priest, a theologian, a religious poet, and an orator. George Herbert passed on at 39 years of age on 1 March 1633 in Bemerton, Wiltshire, England.
 
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“The term used to describe them (Ulster Scots) was rednecks, a Scots border term meaning Presbyterians.” -Arthur L. Herman: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” (November 2001)
 
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“A lot of men think that if they smile for a second somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.” -Don Herold
 
“Very few people look the part and are it too.” -Don Herold
 
Don Herold was born in 1889. He became a writer, a cartoonist, and a humorist. Don Herold passed on in 1966.
 
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“There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel
 
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel
 
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“Never leave hold of what you’ve got until you’ve got hold of something else.” -Donald Herzberg
 
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“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.” -Thor Heyerdahl
 
Thor Heyerdahl was born in 6 October 1914 in Larvik, Norway. He became an archeologist, an ethnologist, and an adventurer. He is known for organizing and leading the Kon-Tiki (1947) and Ra (1969 - 1970) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Thor Heyerdahl passed on at 87 years of age on 18 April 2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy.
 
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“A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.” -Cullen Hightower  
 
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“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill
 
Aaron Hill was born in 1685. Aaron Hill passed on in 1750.
 
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“If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.” -Etty Hillesum
 
Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum was born in 1914. Her letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943, describe her life as a Jewish woman in Amsterdam during the German occupation. Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum passed on in 1943. Her letters were published in 1981.
 
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“The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.” -Gordon B. Hinckley: General Conference Report (October 1973), page 106
 
Gordon Bitner Hinckley was born on 23 June 1910. He became a writer and the longest presiding President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church, from 12 March 1995 until his passing. Gordon Bitner Hinckley passed on at 97 years of age on 27 January 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“A day will never be any more than what you make of it. Practice being a doer!” -Josh Hinds
 
Josh Stephen Hinds was born in 1973. His website is www.JoshHinds.com.
 
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“The only light upon the future is faith.” -Theodore Hoecker
 
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“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.” -Eric Hoffer
 
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” -Eric Hoffer
 
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” -Eric Hoffer
 
Eric Hoffer was born in 1902. He became an American longshoreman, then turned moral and social philosopher and writer. He was the author of ten books, including his first book, “The True Believer” (1951). Eric Hoffer passed on in 1983.
 
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“I realize that there are other people who have days stranger than mine. I don’t know them. I don’t know anyone who knows them. But I’m sure they’re out there. Somewhere.” -Sarah Hoffman
 
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“It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he makes of what he knows; not a question of what he has acquired, and how he has been trained, but of what he is, and what he can do.” -J. G. Holland
 
“Joys divided are increased.” -J. G. Holland
 
Josiah Gilbert Holland, also known by the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb, was born on 24 July 1819 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a doctor, but left the medical field to be a novelist, an essayist, and a poet. He was a co-founder in 1870 with Roswell Smith, and editor, of “Scribner’s Monthly” magazine. He wrote the lyrics to the Methodist hymn “There’s a Song in the Air.” Josiah Gilbert Holland passed on at 62 years of age on 12 October 1881 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.” -William E. Holler
 
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“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.” -Ernest Holmes
 
You are more than you appear to be -
Life is greater than you have ever known it -
The best is yet to come.
-Ernest Holmes
 
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes was born in 1887. He became an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of the Religious Science movement and a part of the New Thought movement. He is the author of “The Science of Mind” and numerous other metaphysical books, and the founder of “Science of Mind” magazine, in continuous publication since 1927. His books remain in print, and the principles he taught as “Science of Mind” have inspired and influenced many generations. Mr. Holmes had previously studied another New Thought teaching, Divine Science, and was an ordained Divine Science Minister. Ernest Shurtleff Holmes passed on in 1960.
 
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“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior
 
“To reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior was born on 8 March 1841. He served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was a professor of law at the Harvard Law School, of which he was an alumnus. He was also a legal historian and an associate justice of the American Supreme Court (1902 - 1932). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior passed on at 93 years of age on 6 March 1935.
 
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“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior was born on 29 August 1809. He was married to Amelia Jackson in 1840. He was an American physician, novelist, biographer, essayist, and poet. He is known for writing books on medicine and surgery. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior passed on at 85 years of age on 7 October 1894.
 
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“The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.” -Henry Home
 
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“I don’t set up for being a cosmopolite, which to my mind signifies being polite to every country except your own.” -Thomas Hood
 
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“When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.” -Richard Hooker
 
Richard Hooker was born in about 1554. He became a priest and theologian in the Church of England. Richard Hooker passed on in 1600.
 
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“Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.” -Jane Ellice Hopkins
 
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“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -Lena Horne
 
Lena Horne was born in 1917. She is an American singer and actress.
 
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“Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming.” -Jean Houston
 
Jean Houston was born in 1937 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She is an American writer. She and her husband Robert Masters co-founded The Foundation for Mind Research.
 
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“Life is like a blanket, too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder, but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.” -Marion Howard
 
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“Half the world does not know how the other half lives but is trying to find out.” -Edgar W. Howe
 
 “If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.” -Edgar W. Howe
 
“You cannot afford to have things given to you.” -Edgar W. Howe
 
Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe, was born on 3 May 1853 in Treaty, Wabash County, Indiana, United States of America. He became a newspaper and magazine editor, a publisher, and a novelist. He is known for his magazine, “E. W. Howe’s Monthly.” Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe passed on at 84 years of age on 3 October 1937 near Atchison, Kansas, United States of America.
 
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“What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.” -John Howe
 
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“I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.” -Julia Ward Howe
 
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“A hungry man is an angry man.” -James Howell: “English Proverbs” (1659)
 
James Howell was born in about 1594. He was a British writer, diplomat and scholar. James Howell passed on in 1666.
 
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“He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.” -Mary Howitt
 
Mary Howitt was born in 1799. Mary Howitt passed on in 1888.
 
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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
“We work to become, not to acquire.” -Elbert Hubbard: “A Thousand and One Epigrams” (1911)
 
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on 19 June 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America. He became a teacher, a writer, an editor, a publisher, an artist, and a philosopher. He is known as the founder of the Roycroft Press. Elbert Green Hubbard passed on at 58 years of age on 7 May 1915 in the sinking of the oceangoing vessel “Lusitania” off the coast of Kinsale, Ireland.
 
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“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“One good thing about having one suit of clothes - you’ve always got your pencil.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Some folks can look so busy doing nothin’ that they seem in dispensable.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Some men are born great, some achieve, greatness, and others just keep still.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Th’ feller that calls you ‘brother’ generally wants something that don’t belong to him.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Th’ only way t’ entertain some folks is t’ listen t’ ‘em.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard: “New Sayings by Abe Martin and Velma’s Vow: A Gripping Love Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut” (1916)
 
“The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.” -Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard
 
“There’s another advantage of being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?” -Frank McKinney Hubbard

Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard was born on 1 September 1868 in Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Josephine Jackson in 1905. He became a journalist, a cartoonist, a humorist, and a political commentator. He is known for his “Abe Martin of Brown County” newspaper cartoon (1904 - 1932). Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard passed on at 62 years of age on 26 December 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
 
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“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.” -Charles Evans Hughes: in an address to the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) of New York: as quoted in “The Homiletic Review” (November 1907)

Charles Evans Hughes was born in 1862. He became an American professor of law, a politician, and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1930 - 1941). Charles Evans Hughes passed on in 1948.
 
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“A right is not to be treated as a favor.” -Victor Hugo
 
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” -Victor Hugo
 
“Inspiration and genius - one and the same.” -Victor Hugo
 
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” -Victor Hugo
 
“The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity: that, unlike any other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.” -Victor Hugo
 
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.” -Victor Hugo
 
“The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.” -Victor Hugo
 
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.” -Victor Hugo
 
Victor Marie Hugo was born on 26 February 1802 in Besançon, France. He became a visual artist, a romantic poet, an essayist, a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), and a statesman. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. He is known for his novels “Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1831; originally published as “Notre-Dame de Paris”) and “Les Misérables” (1862). His volumes of poetry include “Les Contemplations” and “La Légende des siècles.” Victor Marie Hugo passed on at 83 years of age on 22 May 1885 in Paris, France.
 
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“The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.” -Aldous Huxley
 
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” -Aldous Huxley
 
“What we perceive and understand depends upon what we are.” -Aldous Huxley: “Ends and Means” (1937), ‘Beliefs’
 
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on 26 July 1894. He was a son of Leonard Huxley and a brother of Julian Huxley. He became a novelist, an essayist, a magazine editor, a short story writer, a movie script writer, a critic, and a poet. His novels include, “Crome Yellow” (1921), “Point Counter Point” (1928), and “After Many a Summer” (1939). He moved to the United States of America in 1937. Aldous Leonard Huxley passed on at 69 years of age on 22 November 1963 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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Quotations by Authors Ia through Iz

10/17/2018

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“In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching others.” -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
 
“Told that a certain man had acquired great wealth, a sage asked: ‘Has he also acquired the days in which to spend it?’” -Solomon ibn Gabirol
 
Solomon ibn Gabirol, also known as Solomon ben Judah, was born in about C.E. 1022. He was a Spanish poet and a philosopher. Solomon ibn Gabirol passed on in about C.E. 1058.
 
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“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.” -Henrik Johan Ibsen
 
“To live is to war with trolls.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“You should never put on your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.” -Henrik Johan Ibsen
 
Henrik Johan Ibsen was born in 1828. He was a Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. His dramas are the most frequently performed plays in the world after William Shakespeare. Henrik Johan Ibsen passed on in 1906.
 
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“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they forget?’” -Howard Ikemoto
 
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“Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright Moon.” -Ikkyu
 
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“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.” -Ivan Illich
 
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“Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them.” -Roger G. Imhoff
 
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“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” -William R. Inge
 
“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.” -William R. Inge
 
“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.” -William R. Inge
 
“The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.” -William R. Inge
 
“There are two kinds of fools. One says, ‘This is old, therefore it is good.’ The other says, ‘This is new, therefore it is better.’” -William R. Inge
 
“We are what we love.” -William R. Inge
 
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.” -William R. Inge
 
William Ralph Inge was born on 6 June 1860 in Crayke, Yorkshire, England. He was a brother of Charles Cuthbert Inge. He became an Anglican, or Church of England, priest; professor of divinity at Cambridge University; a Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London (1911 - 1934) where he became known as Dean Inge; and a writer of more than 35 books. William Ralph Inge passed on at 93 years of age on 26 February 1954 in Wallingford, England.
 
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“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” -Robert G. Ingersoll: in a Decoration Day address (1822)
 
“It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and courage to stand by his own convictions.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“The greatest test of courage on Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“We rise by lifting others.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
Robert Green ‘Bob’ Ingersoll was born on 11 August 1833. He was a Union General during the American Civil War, a lawyer, an orator (professional speaker), and a politician. Robert Green Ingersoll passed on at 65 years of age on 21 July 1899.
 
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“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.” -Washington Irving
 
“Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.” -Washington Irving
 
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, ’tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.” -Washington Irving: “A Knickerbocker’s History of New York” (1809), book II, chapter 3
 
Washington Irving was born in 1783. He was an American historian, biographer, essayist, writer of travel books, and ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He is best known for his short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” which appear in his book “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” (July 1820). Washington Irving passed on in 1859.
 
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“Do not be afraid to be amazing.” -Andy Offutt Irwin
 
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“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” -Doug Ivester
 
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10/16/2018

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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
 
P. D. James was born in 1920.
 
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“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” -William James
 
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” -William James
 
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” -William James: “Is Life Worth Living?” (1895)
 
“Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.” -William James: “The Sentiment of Rationality” (1882)
 
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.” -William James
 
“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.” -William James: “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), Chapter 22
 
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” -William James 
 
“Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.” -William James: as quoted in Ralph Barton Perry: “The Thought and Character of William James” (1935), Volume II, chapter 91
 
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” -William James: “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), Chapter 22
 
“The deepest principle in Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.” -William James: letter (1896) to students who had sent to him a plant for Easter
 
“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be loss, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, us all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.” -William James
 
William James was born on 11 January 1842 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was trained as a medical doctor, and became a pioneering psychologist and a philosopher. He wrote many influential books on the topics of psychology and mysticism. He was a founder of the American Society for Psychical Research, as well as a champion of alternative approaches to healing, and he challenged his professional colleagues not to let a narrow mindset prevent an honest appraisal of those phenomena. William James passed on at 68 years of age on 26 August 1910 in Chocorua, New Hampshire, United States of America.
 
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.” -Douglas Jerrold
 
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens.” -Douglas Jerrold
 
“He was so benevolent, so merciful a man, that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” -Douglas Jerrold
 
Douglas William Jerrold was born in 1803. He became an English dramatist and writer. His father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of a theatre. Douglas Jerrold occasionally took a child part on the stage. In December 1813, he joined the ship “Namur,” which had Jane Austen’s brother Francis Austen as captain, and he served as a midshipman until the peace of 1815. He later became a playwright and a journalist. Douglas William Jerrold passed on in 1857.
 
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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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“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” -Steve Jobs
 
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Steve Jobs
 
Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs was born in 1955. He became an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was a co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Incorporated and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Steven Paul ‘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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“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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“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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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Franklin P. Jones
 
“While enormous strides have been made in recent years, there’s still a lot to be said for a smile.” -Franklin P. Jones
 
“You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.” -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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“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
 
“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 Jordan was born in 1963. He is an American professional basketball player.
 
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“There are two great things that education should do for the individual. It should train his senses, and teach him to think. Education, as we know it to-day, does not truly do either; it gives the individual only a vast accumulation of facts, unclassified, undigested, and seen in no true relations. Like seeds kept in a box, they may be retained, but they do not grow.” -William George Jordan (1864 - 1928): “Mental Training, a Remedy for Education” (1894) pamphlet, opening paragraph
 
“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
 
“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)
 
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.
 
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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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“Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses.” -Juvenal
 
“Who will guard the guardians themselves?” [English translation]
“Qui custodiet ipsos custodes.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
 
“Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.” [English translation]
“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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10/15/2018

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“We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past.” -Chiang Kai-shek
 
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“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am - and listening to them.  And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.” -Henry Kaiser
 
Henry J. Kaiser was born in 1882. Henry J. Kaiser passed on in 1967.
 
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“It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” -Byron Katie
 
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“Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.” -Ellie Katz
 
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“Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.” -Lionel M. Kauffman
 
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“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.” -Anna Kavan
 
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“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” -Danny Kaye
 
Danny Kaye was born in 1913. He was an American singer, dancer, comedian, and actor. Danny Kaye passed on in 1987.
 
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“It is far better to be exhausted from success then to be rested from failure.” -Mary Kay
 
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” -John Keats: “Endymion” (1818), book 1, line 1

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820)
 
John Keats (jŏn kēts) was born on 31 October 1795 in England. He became one of England’s outstanding Romantic poets. Between the ages of 18 and 24, he wrote poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1817 and included his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” His poems of 1820, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn,” are unequaled for dignity, beauty, and imagery. Also well-known is his melodic poem “The Eve of Saint Agnes” (1820). John Keats passed on at 26 years of age on 23 February 1821.
 
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“I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.” -Sam Keen
 
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“There is no such thing as failure, only results, with some more successful than others.” -Jeff Keller
 
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“Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” -Charles F. Kettering: as attributed in “Science Education” (1961)
 
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” -Charles F. Kettering
 
“Keep on going, and chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” -Charles F. Kettering
 
“No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” -Charles F. Kettering
 
Charles Franklin Kettering was born on 29 August 1876. He was an American engineer, inventor, and business executive. Charles Franklin Kettering passed on at 82 years of age on 25 November 1958.
 
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“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” -Ken S. Keyes, Junior: “Handbook to Higher Consciousness” (1975)
 
Ken S. Keyes, Junior was born in 1921. He became a personal growth writer and lecturer. Ken S. Keyes, Junior passed on in 1995.

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“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.” -John Maynard Keynes: “The End of Laissez-Faire” (1926) chapter 1
 
John Maynard Keynes was born in 1883. He was an English economist. John Maynard Keynes passed on in 1946.
 
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Victor Kiam
 
Victor Kiam was born in 1926. He became a business leader. Victor Kiam passed on in 2001.
 
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“Once you label me, you negate me.” -Søren Kierkegaard
 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark. He became a philosopher, a theologian, a poet, and a social critic. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard passed on at 42 years of age on 11 November 1855 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark.
 
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“A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, which way are others going?” -Spencer W. Kimball: as quoted in Edward L. Kimball, editor: “Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball” (1982), page 164
 
“With the arrival of Spring, we hope all of you will put in your gardens and prepare to enjoy their produce this Summer.  We hope you are making this a family affair, with everyone, even the little ones, assigned to something.  There is so much to learn and harvest from your garden, far more than just a crop itself.” -Spencer W. Kimball: speech at the General Conference (April 1978)
 
Spencer Woolley Kimball was born on 28 March 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He became a leader in the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints. Spencer Woolley Kimball passed on at 90 years of age on 5 November 1985 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“Life is ten percent what happens to us and ninety percent how we react to it.” -Dennis P. Kimbro
 
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“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” -B. B. King
 
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“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” -Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King was a professional tennis player.
 
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“Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors: Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.” -Florence King

“When people stop reading the Bible and Shakespeare, they cut themselves off from an enormous number of figures of speech used in the English language. Growing up without these models, they never develop the habit of using simile and metaphor themselves. Eventually they develop a fear and loathing of all such literary conventions and a conviction that anyone who uses them is being somehow ‘insincere.’ No wonder ringing political oratory is dead. No candidate would dare.” -Florence King, as quoted in “National Review” (23 July 2001)
 
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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King 
 
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” -Stephen King
 
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“The men whom I have seen succeed have always been cheerful and helpful, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took changes and chances of this mortal life like men.” -Charles Kingsley
 
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” -Charles Kingsley
 
Charles Kingsley was born in 1819. He was married to Frances Grenfell. He became an English clergyman and novelist. He is known as the author of “Water-Babies” (1863). Charles Kingsley passed on in 1875.
 
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“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.” -Barbara Kingsolver
 
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955. She is an American freelance writer, novelist, essayist, and poet.
 
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“What you know got you where you are. To get where you want to go, you’ve got to make some changes, and more than likely learn new things.” -Ian Kinnery
 
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“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.” -Lisa Kirk
 
Lisa Kirk was born as Elsie Kirk in 1925 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an actress and a singer. She is known for her comic talents and rich contralto. Lisa Kirk passed on in 1990.
 
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“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” -Henry A. Kissinger
 
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“The words ‘I am’ . . . are potent words; be careful what you hitch to them. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.” -A. L. Kitselman
 
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“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
 
“Failure defeats losers. Failure inspires winners.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
 
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” -Robert Kiyosaki
 
“Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Your future is created by what you do today - not tomorrow . . .” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
 
Robert Toru Kiyosaki was born in 1947. He is an American investor, businessman, self-help author, motivational speaker, financial literacy activist, and financial commentator. Mr. Kiyosaki is known for his “Rich Dad. Poor Dad” series of motivational books and has written more than 15 books.
 
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“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“In every activity do your best and let the world make its own appraisal. You are what you are. Explanations seldom explain. Cultivate a fine sense of independence, based upon the assurance that you are loyal to a high standard of conduct.” - Grenville Kleiser
 
“You were intended not only to work but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality, you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.” -Grenville Kleiser

Grenville Kleiser was born on 25 July 1868 in Toronto, Canada. He was married to Elizabeth Margaret Thompson on 5 July 1894. He became an American instructor in public speaking at the Yale Divinity School of Yale University, and a writer of humor and inspiration. Grenville Kleiser passed on at 85 years of age on 27 August 1953 in New York City, New York, United States of America.

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“Everyone has the will to win; what is important is the will to prepare.” -Bobby Knight
 
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“Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken?” -Damon Knight: “The Man in the Tree”
 
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“The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today or at any time.” -William S. Knudsen
 
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“My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be.” -Alice Koeller
 
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“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.” -Kathe Kollwitz
 
Kathe Kollwitz was born in 1867. Kathe Kollwitz passed on in 1945.
 
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“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.” -Mira Komarovsky (born 1906)
 
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“All of the significant battles are waged within the self.” -Sheldon Kopp
 
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“Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.” -Stu Krieger
 
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“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.” -Ray Kroc
 
“It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.” -Ray Kroc
 
“While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.” -Ray Kroc
 
Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc was born in 1902. He was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald’s in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Like KFC founder Harland Sanders, Ray Kroc’s success came later in life, when he was past his fiftieth birthday. Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc passed on in 1984.
 
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“The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.” -Louis Kronenberger
 
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“It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.” -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
“The opinion other people have of you is their problem, not yours.” -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born on 8 July 1926 in Zürich, Switzerland. She became an American psychiatrist and a writer. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross passed on at 78 years of age on 24 August 2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America.
 
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“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.” -Thomas Kuhn
 
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” -Charles Kuralt
 
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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” -Harold Kushner
 
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” -Harold Kushner
 
“You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.” -Harold Kushner
 
Harold Samuel Kushner was born on 3 April 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. He is a Jewish rabbi, a University instructor, and a writer. He is known for his book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” (1981).
 
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10/14/2018

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“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.” -Charles Lamb
 
Charles Lamb, also known by the pseudonym Elia, was born in London, England on 10 February 1775. He was a clerk in the East India offices and later became an essayist and poet. His works include “Tales from Shakespeare,” which was written in collaboration with his sister, and “Essays of Elia.” Charles Lamb passed on at 59 years of age on 27 December 1834 in Edmonton, London, England.
 
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“There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.” -Louis L’Amour
 
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“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” -Edwin Land

Edwin Land was born in 1909. Edwin Land passed on in 1991.
 
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“As the firefly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind - when at rest, it darkens.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
“Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known by initials L. E. L., was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, England. She was a poet and a novelist. Letitia Elizabeth Landon passed on in 1838.
 
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“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.” -Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor was born in 1775. He was a British writer. Walter Savage Landor passed on in 1864.
 
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“Something constructive comes from every defeat.” -Tom Landry
 
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“Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.” -Kurt Langner
 
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“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” -Lucy Larcom
 
“If the world’s a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.” -Lucy Larcom
 
Lucy Larcom was born on about 5 March 1824 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a teacher, a writer, and a poet. Lucy Larcom passed on at 69 years of age on 17 April 1893 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn’t ordered.” -Ring Lardner
 
Ring Lardner was born in 1885. Ring Lardner passed on in 1933.
 
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“Your joy comes from what you give, not from what you accumulate.” -Frank Laubach
 
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“I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” -Estée Lauder
 
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“Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater: as quoted in “The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature” (1818), volume 2
 
“Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle.” -Lavater
 
Johann Kaspar Lavater was born in 1741. He was a Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and the founder of physiognomics. Johann Kaspar Lavater passed on in 1801.
 
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“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence
 
David Herbert Lawrence, also known as D. H. Lawrence, was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. He was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a literary critic, and a painter. David Herbert Lawrence passed on at 44 years of age on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France.
 
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“If we must all agree, all work together, we’re no better than a machine. If an individual can’t work in solidarity with his fellows, it’s his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” (May 1974)
 
“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Left Hand of Darkness” (1969)
 
“To oppose something is to maintain it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
 
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
 
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born on 21 October 1929 in Berkeley, California, United States of America. She is a novelist, a short story writer, a poet, and an essayist. Her website is http://www.ursulakleguin.com/.
 
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Barry Le Patner
 
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“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.” -C. W. Leadbeater
 
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“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts. Think act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.” -Michael LeBoeuf
 
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“Success didn’t spoil me; I’ve always been insufferable.” -Fran Lebowitz

Frances Ann ‘Fran’ Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America. She is a writer, a professional speaker, and a humorist.
 
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“He who limps is still walking.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
 
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
 
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was born on 6 March 1909 in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine). He became a writer, a poet, and an aphorist. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec passed on at 57 years of age on 7 May 1966 in Warsaw, Poland.
 
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” -Bruce Lee
 
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” -Bruce Lee
 
“To be discouraged is to be defeated - it is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. No man is defeated unless he is discouraged.” -Bruce Lee
 
Bruce Lee is a pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan, who was born on 27 November 1940 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a martial artist instructor and an actor. Lee Jun Fan passed on at 32 years of age on 20 July 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
 
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“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” -Edmund Lee
 
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“Don’t be down on that you’re not up on.” -Harold B. Lee
 
“Don’t try to live too many days at a time.” -Harold B. Lee
 
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“A man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” -Jack Lee

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“A militia when properly formed, are in fact, the people themselves . . . and include all men capable of bearing arms . . . To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike . . . how to use them.” -Richard Henry Lee
 
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“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” -Robert E. Lee
 
“You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.” -Robert E. Lee
 
Robert E. Lee was born in 1807. He was a military general in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee passed on in 1870.
 
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“Be mindful of your self-talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe.” -David James Lees
 
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“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.” -John Lehman
 
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“If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks, and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.” -Madeleine L’Engle
 
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” -Madeleine L’Engle
 
Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born on 29 November 1918 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a writer of young adult fiction. She is known for books including “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962), “A Wind in the Door” (1973), and “Many Waters” (1986). Madeleine L’Engle Camp passed on at 88 years of age on 6 September 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting.” -Paddy Lennox (2009)
 
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“You can’t run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.” -John Leo
 
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“The Earth was small light blue and so touchingly alone our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.” -Aleksei Leonov
 
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“I’m always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.” -Doris Lessing
 
Doris May Lessing was born in 1919. She lived on a farm in Rhodesia from 1924 to 1949, and then settled in England. She became novelist, a poet, a playwright, a librettist, a biographer, and a short story writer. Doris May Lessing passed on in 2013.
 
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“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: as attributed in “Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association” (1907), volumes 46 and 47
 
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in 1729. He was a German writer, dramatist, philosopher, publicist, and art critic. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing passed on in 1781.
 
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“Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.” -Sam Levenson
 
Sam Levenson was born on 28 December 1911. He became a humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist. Sam Levenson passed on at 68 years of age on 27 August 1980 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
 
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“You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.” -Joseph E. Levine
 
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“I believe people who work 12 hours a day should go home with bigger loaves of bread than people who work 8.” -Michael Levine
 
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“From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.” -George Henry Lewes
 
“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.” -George Henry Lewes: “The Spanish Drama”
 
“The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.” -George Henry Lewes
 
George Henry Lewes was born in 1817. He was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was a consort of Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pseudonym George Eliot. George Henry Lewes passed on in 1878.
 
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“Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important, only know what is best for you.” -Ken Lewis
 
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“I ascended to the top of a cut bluff this morning, from whence I had a most delightful view of the country, the whole of which except the valley formed by the Missouri is void of timber or underbrush, exposing to the first glance of the spectator immense herds of Buffalo, Elk, Deer, and Antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture.” -Meriwether Lewis: in eastern Montana (22 April 1805)
 
Meriwether Lewis was born in 1774. He was an American explorer. Meriwether Lewis passed on in 1809.
 
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“‘The trouble with this country is,’ observed Herndon, ‘that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is.’’” -Sinclair Lewis
 
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“Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.” -W. A. Lewis
 
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“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” -W. M. Lewis
 
William Mather Lewis.
 
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“Nothing contributes more to peace of mind than to have no opinions whatever.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
 
“One of the main conveniences of marriage is that if you can’t stand a visitor, you can pass him along to your wife.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
 
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742. He was a German physicist and philosopher. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg passed on in 1799.
 
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“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 
“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She was an American aviator and writer; author of “Gift from the Sea” (1955). She was married to aviator Charles Lindbergh. Anne Morrow Lindbergh passed on in 2001.
 
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“If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, ‘You are wrong.’ This method works every time.” -Henry C. Link
 
“Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.” -Henry C. Link
 
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry C. Link
 
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” -Henry C. Link
 
Henry Charles Link was born in 1889. He became a psychologist. His written works include, “The Return to Religion” (1936). Henry Charles Link passed on in 1952.
 
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“One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.” -P. W. Litchfield
 
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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.” -Mary Wilson Little
 
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“It is not where you begin, it is where you end that counts.” -Faith Littlefield
 
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“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.” -Livy
 
Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was born in 59 B.C.E. He became a historian in ancient Rome. Titus Livius passed on in C.E. 17.
 
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“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” -John Locke
 
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -John Locke
 
John Locke was born in 1632. He was an English physician, and a political and educational philosopher. John Locke passed on in 1704.
 
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“What really matters is what you do with what you have.” -Shirley Lord
 
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“Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” -Edward Lorenz: address (29 December 1979) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington
 
Edward Norton Lorenz was born on 23 May 1917. He was a mathematician, a meteorologist, and a developer, along with Mary Cartwright, of chaos theory. He coined the term ‘butterfly effect.’ Edward Norton Lorenz passed on at 90 years of age on 16 April 2008.
 
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“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” -George C. Lorimer
 
George Claude Lorimer was born in 1838 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He emigrated to the United States of American in 1856 with the intent of becoming an actor. Instead, he became an ordained Baptist minister and served as the pastor of churches in Kentucky, New York and Massachusetts. George Claude Lorimer passed on in 1904.
 
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“Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.” -George H. Lorimer
 
George Horace Lorimer was born on 6 October 1867 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America. He was a journalist and a writer, and known as an editor of “The Saturday Evening Post.” George Horace Lorimer passed on at 70 years of age on 22 October 1937 in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” -Ronnie Lott
 
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“Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
 
“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
 
Lawrence G. Lovasik was born on 22 June 1913 in Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a Catholic priest. Lawrence G. Lovasik passed on at 72 years of age on 9 June 1986 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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Happiness, to some elation;
     Is to others, mere stagnation.
-Amy Lowell: “Happiness”
 
Amy Lowell was born in 1874. She was an American poet. Amy Lowell passed on in 1925.
 
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“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” -James Russell Lowell
 
“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.” -James Russell Lowell
 
“Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.” -James Russell Lowell
 
James Russell Lowell was born on 22 February 1819. He was an American poet, essayist, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. They often had conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. He was the first editor of the “Atlantic Monthly” (1857 - 1861). James Russell Lowell passed on at 72 years of age on 12 August 1891.
 
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“A friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes asked him why he had taken up the study of Greek at the age of ninety-four. Holmes replied, ‘Well, my good sir, it’s now or never.’” -Max Lucado
 
“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.” -Max Lucado: as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (March 1998)
 
Max Lucado was born on 11 January 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, United States of America. He is a Christian writer and a preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. His website is at www.MaxLucado.com.
 
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“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.” -George Lucas
 
George Lucas is a movie director and a movie producer.
 
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“Trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it puts everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and classified. Throw it at your feet, and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity.” -Celia Luce 
 
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“In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.” -Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce was born on 10 March 1903 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a writer, an editor, a playwright, and a United States ambassador to Italy. She is known for her 1936 hit play, “The Women,” which had an all-female cast. Her husband was Henry Luce, publisher of “Time,” “Life,” and “Fortune” magazines. Clare Boothe Luce passed on at 84 years of age on 9 October 1987 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
 
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“A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.” -Robert J. Lumsden
 
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“Life, it seems to me, is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grownup people.” -Robert Lynd
 
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” -Robert Lynd
 
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10/13/2018

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“Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay: “History of England” (1849 - 1861), volume I, chapter 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 in Leicestershire, England. He became a historian, a politician, a statesman, an essayist, and a poet. Thomas Babington Macaulay passed on at 59 years of age on 28 December 1859 in London, England.
 
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“Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery MacDonald
 
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Norman MacEwan
 
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The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
-Charles Mackay: “Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics” (1857): ‘The Old and the New’
 
Charles Mackay was born on 27 March 1814 in Perth, Scotland. He became a newspaper editor, a poet, a writer, an anthologist, a novelist, and a songwriter. He is known for his book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841). Charles Mackay passed on at 75 years of age on 24 December 1889 in London, England.
 
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“If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.” -Harvey B. Mackay
 
Harvey B. Mackay was born in 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He is a syndicated columnist, writer, speaker, and businessman.
 
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“It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.” -James Mackintosh
 
James Mackintosh was born on 24 October 1765 in Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He became a historian and a statesman. James Mackintosh passed on at 66 years of age on 30 May 1832 in London, England.
 
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“There’s only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” -Archibald MacLeish
 
Archibald Macleish was born on 7 May 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America. He was married to Ada Hitchcock in 1916. He became a poet, a playwright, an essayist, and a lawyer. He lived in Europe (1923 - 1928) and was editor of
“Fortune Magazine” (1929 - 1938) in New York. Archibald Macleish passed on at 89 years of age on 20 April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Live in your hopes and not in your fears.” -Johnny Majors
 
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“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” -Horace Mann
 
“You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.” -Horace Mann
 
Horace Mann was born on 4 May 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an educator. Horace Mann passed on at 63 years of age on 2 August 1859 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States of America.
 
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“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“I’ve learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth . . . I must walk away. I owe it to myself . . . I owe it to my future.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“Let your courage inspire the world around you.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of Nature.” -Steve Maraboli
 
Steve Maraboli was born in 1975. He is a professional speaker and a writer.
 
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“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” -Marcel Marceau
 
Marcel Marceau was born in 1923.
 
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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“It is just as easy to go through life looking for the good and the beautiful, instead of the ugly; for the noble instead of the ignoble; for the bright and cheerful instead of the despairing; to see the bright side instead of the dark side. To set your face always towards the sunlight is just as easy as to see always the shadows, and it makes all the difference in your character between content and discontent, between happiness and misery, and in your life between prosperity and adversity, between success and failure.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them . . . they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.” -Orison S. Marden
 
“There are two essential requirements for success. The first is ‘go-at-it-iveness’ and the second is ‘stick-to-it-iveness.’” -Orison S. Marden
 
“We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.” -Orison S. Marden
 
Orison Swett Marden was born on 11 June 1848 in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire, United States of America. Despite being orphaned at 7 years of age and having lived with several different guardians, he went on to achieve degrees in Medicine and Law at Harvard University. He became an inspirational writer and an editor. He wrote about how to achieve success in life, discussing common-sense principles and virtues for making a well-rounded life. Many of his ideas are in support of New Thought philosophy. He is known as the founder of “Success” magazine. Orison Swett Marden passed on at 75 years of age on 10 March 1924.
 
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   “It is not what you were, it’s what you are today.” -David Marion
 
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There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
     None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others,
     Comes back into our own.
-Edwin Markham: “A Creed” (1900)
 
Edwin Markham was born on 23 April 1852 in Oregon City, Oregon, United States of America. He became a poet and a lecturer. Edwin Markham passed on at 87 years of age on 7 March 1940 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.” -Don Marquis: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow: “The Complete Toastmaster: A New Treasury for Speakers” (1960)
 
Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis was born on 29 July 1878 in Walnut, Illinois, United States of America. He became a writer, a playwright, a poet, a novelist, a humorist, a newspaper columnist, and a journalist. He is known for creating the fictional characters Archy and Mehitabel. Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis passed on at 59 years of age on 29 December 1937 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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Defer not joys thou mayst not win from fate:
     Judge only what is past to be thine own.
Cares with a linked chain of sorrows wait.
     Mirth tarries not; but soon on wings is flown -
With both hands hold it - clasped in full embrace,
     Still from thy heart it oft will glide away!
To say, “I mean to live” is folly’s place:
     Tomorrow’s life comes late; live, then, today.
-Martial
 
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.” -Martial
 
Marcus Valerius Martialis, also known simply as Martial, was born in March in a year between C.E. 38 and C.E. 41 in Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain). He became a Roman poet and a satirist. He is known for his twelve books of epigrams, or short witty poems, published in Rome between C.E. 86 and C.E. 103. He wrote 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Marcus Valerius Martialis passed on between C.E. 102 and C.E. 104 in Rome.
 
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“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.” -Miss Manners (Judith Martin (born 1938)): “Miss Manner’s Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior” (1982)
 
Judith Martin, also known by the pseudonym Miss Manners, was born in 1938. She is an American newspaper columnist.
 
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“There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.” -James Martineau
 
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“Nothing exists; all things are becoming.” -Reiho Masunaga
 
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“Nothing inspires confidence in a business man sooner than punctuality nor is there any habit which sooner saps his reputation than that of being always behind time.” -William Mathews

“The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune, are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed.” -William Mathews
 
William Mathews was born in 1818. William Mathews passed on in 1909.
 
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“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.” -W. Somerset Maugham
 
William Somerset Maugham, also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was born on 25 January 1874 at the United Kingdom’s embassy in Paris, France. He was married to Syrie Wellcome in 1917. He studied to be a physician, but after the great success of his first novel, “Liza of Lambeth” (1897), he decided to become a writer. He spent the next 65 years as a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), and a short story writer. William Somerset Maugham passed on at 91 years of age on 16 December 1965 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
 
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“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” - Iris Murdoch
 
“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” - Iris Murdoch
 
Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch was born on 15 July 1919 in Dublin, Ireland. She became a novelist and a philosopher. Her first published novel was, “Under the Net” (1954). Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch passed on at 79 years of age on 8 February 1999 in Oxfordshire, England.
 
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“Men will spend their health getting wealth; then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.” -Mike Murdock
 
Michael Dean ‘Mike’ Murdoch was born on 18 April 1946 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a proponent of prosperity theology, pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry in Fort Worth, Texas, and host of the “Wisdom Keys with Mike Murdoch” television program.
 
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“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” -Robert Murray M’Cheyne: letter (27 June 1839)
 
Robert Murray M’Cheyne, sometimes spelled McCheyne, was born on 21 May 1813 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a poet and a minister in the Church of Scotland. Robert Murray M’Cheyne passed on at 29 years of age on 25 March 1843 in Dundee, Scotland.
 
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“People don’t seem to realize that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee
 
“There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.” William McFee
 
William McFee was born in 1881. William McFee passed on in 1966.
 
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“If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.” -Bryant McGill
 
“You will find that most of the reasons you are afraid to do something, are exactly the reasons why you should.” -Bryant McGill
 
Bryant H. McGill was born in 1969.
 
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“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - ‘If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.’” -Joan McIntosh
 
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“Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.” -David O. McKay
 
“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” -David O. McKay
 
David Oman McKay was born on 8 September 1873 in Huntsville, Utah, United States of America. He became a religious leader and an educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1951 - 1970). David Oman McKay passed on at 96 years of age on 18 January 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin
 
“There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.” -Mignon McLaughlin
 
Mignon McLaughlin was born on 6 June 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. She became a journalist, a short story writer, and an aphorist. Mignon McLaughlin passed on at 70 years of age on 20 December 1983 in Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America.
 
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“It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.” -Peter McWilliams
 
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams
 
Peter Alexander McWilliams was born on 5 August 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. He became a writer of self-help books, a poet, and a photographer. Peter Alexander McWilliams passed on at 50 years of age on 14 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Author website: http://www.PeterMcWilliams.org.
 
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“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.” -Margaret Mead
 
Margaret Mead was born on 16 December 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an anthropologist. Margaret Mead passed on at 76 years of age on 15 November 1978 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens
 
“The man who runs may fight again.” -Menander of Athens: “Monostikoi”
 
Menander of Athens was born in 342 B.C.E. in Kifissia, Athens, Greece. He became a dramatist. Menander of Athens passed on at about 51 years of age in 291 B.C.E. in Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
 
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“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.” -Robert Menzies
 
Robert Menzies was born in 1894. Robert Menzies passed on in 1978.
 
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“The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that as with modern decor the furniture of the mind will be sparse bare and uncomfortable.” -Robert King Merton
 
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“The biggest human temptation is . . . to settle for too little.” -Thomas Merton
 
Thomas Merton was born in 1915. He became a writer, a poet, and a Catholic Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, United States of America. In 1949, he became an ordained priest and was given the name Father Louis. Thomas Merton passed on in 1968.
 
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“Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.” -Adam Michnik
 
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“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.” -John Stuart Mill
 
John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, London, England. He became a philosopher, a political economist, and a civil servant. John Stuart Mill passed on at 66 years of age on 8 May 1873 in Avignon, France.
 
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“If you analyze anything, you destroy it.” -Arthur Miller
 
Arthur Asher Miller was born on 17 October 1915 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a playwright, a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Among his plays are “All My Sons,” “The Crucible,” and “A View from the Bridge.” He also wrote the screenplay for the film, “The Misfits.” Arthur Asher Miller passed on at 89 years of age on 10 February 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.” -Henry Miller
 
“The moment that one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious and awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” -Henry Miller
 
Henry Valentine Miller was born on 26 December 1891 in Yorkville, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an essayist, a travel memoirist, a literary critic, a watercolor painter, and a novelist. His works include the books, “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn.” He lived in Europe from 1930 to 1940. Henry Valentine Miller passed on at 88 years of age on 7 June 1980 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.” -Merle Miller
 
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“Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine.” -Dan Millman
 
“The key to happiness isn’t in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Dan Millman
 
Dan Millman is a speaker and a writer.
 
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“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” -John Milton: “Paradise Lost” (1667)
 
John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 in Bread Street, London, England. He became a poet, a pamphleteer, and a civil servant. He went blind in 1652, and wrote his epic blank verse poem, “Paradise Lost” in 1667. John Milton passed on at 65 years of age on 8 November 1674 in Bunhill Row, London, England.

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“I’ve looked at life from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow, it’s life’s illusions I recall . . . I really don’t know life at all.” -Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides Now” (1969) song
 
Roberta Joan Anderson ‘Joni’ Mitchell.
 
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“It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.” -W. Mitchell
 
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“A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how he makes it and how he spends it.” -James Moffatt
 
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“Things are only worth what you make them worth.” -Molière
 
“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.” -Molière
 
Molière is a pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who was born on 15 January 1622 in Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, France. He became a playwright, an actor, and a poet. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin passed on at 51 years of age on 17 February 1673 in Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France.
 
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“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet
 
Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet was born in 1840. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting, “Impression, soleil levant,” which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet passed on in 1926.
 
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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” -Thomas S. Monson
 
Thomas Spencer Monson was born on 21 August 1927 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He became a bishop and the sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thomas Spencer Monson passed on at 90 years of age on 2 January 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L. M. Montgomery
 
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” -L. M. Montgomery
 
Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as L. M. Montgomery, was born on 30 November 1874 in New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She became a writer. She is known for a series of novels beginning with “Anne of Green Gables” (1908). Lucy Maud Montgomery passed on at 67 years of age on 24 April 1942 in Toronto, Canada.
 
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“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I’ve met.” -Dwight L. Moody
 
“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.” -Dwight L. Moody
 
“True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our inertia, laziness, boredom.” -Dwight L. Moody
 
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian evangelist and a publisher, connected with the Holiness Movement. He is known as the founder of the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, as well as the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. Dwight Lyman Moody passed on at 62 years of age on 22 December 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George Moore
 
George Moore was born in 1852. George Moore passed on in 1933.
 
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“How goodness heightens beauty!” -Hannah More
 
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” -Hannah More
 
“We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.” -Hannah More
 
Hannah More was born in 1745. Hannah More passed on in 1833.
 
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” -J. P. Morgan
 
John Pierpont Morgan, Senior, also known as J. P. Morgan, was born on 17 April 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. He became a banker, a financier, an art collector, and a philanthropist. In 1892, he arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company, to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged it in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation. John Pierpont Morgan, Senior passed on at 75 years of age on 31 March 1913 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.” -Christopher Morley
 
Christopher Darlington Morley was born on 5 May 1890 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a journalist, a novelist, an essayist, a poet, a lecturer, and a producer of stage theater. He was a founder and long-time contributing editor of the “Saturday Review of Literature.” Christopher Darlington Morley passed on at 66 years of age on 28 March 1957 in Roslyn, New York, United States of America.
 
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“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” -John Morley
 
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“If there’s a book you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison
 
Toni Morrison was born in 1931.
 
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“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” -Dwight Morrow: as quoted in the “San Francisco News” (1 June 1949) (similar quotation attributed to Milton Friedman)
 
Dwight Whitney Morrow was born on 11 January 1873 in Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a banker, and a diplomat. Dwight Whitney Morrow passed on at 58 years of age on 5 October 1931 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States of America.
 
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“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” -Kate Morton
 
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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.” -Lucretia Mott
 
Lucretia Mott was born in 1793. Lucretia Mott passed on in 1880.
 
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“You only get paid for done.” -Dax Moy: “The Magic Hundred” (14 September 2008) as published at http://magichundred.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-only-get-rewards-for-done.html
 
Dax Moy was born on 20 September 1970. He is a British physical fitness trainer.
 
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfangus Theophilus Mozart, was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He became a musician and a composer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed on at 35 years of age on 5 December 1791 in Vienna, Austria.
 
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“Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.” -Theodore T. Munger
 
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“To do the will of God from the heart in times of prosperity is the only way to bear this will from the heart in times of suffering.” -Andrew Murray
 
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“We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp, but will not bite.” -Abraham Myerson
 
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“Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace, and you will be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.” -Caroline Myss
 
Caroline Myss was born in 1952.
 
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Quotations by Authors Na through Nz

10/12/2018

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“To be a person of truth, be swayed neither by approval nor disapproval. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.” -Nachman of Breslov
 
“You are never given an obstacle you cannot overcome.” -Nachman of Breslov
 
Nachman of Breslov was born in 1772 in Medzeboz, Ukraine. He was a great-grandson of Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He became a “Torah” sage, teacher of Hasidic Judaism, and the founder of the Breslov Hasidic sect. Believers of the Breslov Hasidic sect endeavor to develop a blissful relationship with God and believe in prayer as the principle expression of religious life. Nachman of Breslov is known as the author of the work, “Likutey Moharan,” composed partially by himself and partially by his chief disciple, Rabbi Nossan Sternhartz. Nachman of Breslov passed on at 38 years of age in 1810 in Uman, Ukraine.
 
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“Opening night: the night before the play is ready to open.” -George Jean Nathan
 
George Jean Nathan was born in 1882. He was an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine “The Smart Set” to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing “The American Mercury” and “The American Spectator.” George Jean Nathan passed on in 1958.
 
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“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against not with the wind. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.” -John Neal
 
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“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” -Kristen Neff
 
“Unlike self-criticism, which asks if you’re good enough, self-compassion asks, ‘What’s good for you?’” -Kristin Neff
 
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“Most things, except agriculture, can wait.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
 
Jawaharlal Nehru was born in 1889. Jawaharlal Nehru passed on in 1964.
 
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“I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of You, my dearest love. I never touch even pudding.” -Horatio Nelson: letter (1800) to Emma Hamilton
 
Horatio Nelson was born in 1758. Horatio Nelson passed on in 1805.
 
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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” -Willie Nelson
 
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“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.” -Mabel Newcomber
 
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“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” -John Henry Newman
 
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” -John Henry Newman
 
I sought to hear the voice of God
     And climbed the topmost steeple,
But God declared: “Go down again -
     I dwell among the people.”
-John Henry Newman
 
John Henry Newman, also known as Cardinal Newman, was born in 1801 in London, England. He became a minister in the Church of England in 1824. In 1845, he converted to Roman Catholicism, become an ordained priest in 1848, and then become a cardinal in 1879. He wrote two novels, “Loss and Gain,” and “Callista.” John Henry Newman passed on in 1890.
 
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“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” -A. Edward Newton
 
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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” -Howard W. Newton: as quoted in “Printers’ Ink” (1947)
 
“The thoughtless are rarely wordless.” -Howard W. Newton
 
Howard W. Newton was born in 1903. He was an American advertising executive and magazine columnist. Howard W. Newton passed on in 1951.
 
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Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
-John Newton
 
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton
 
John Newton was born in 1725. John Newton passed on in 1807.
 
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“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” -J. F. Newton
 
Joseph Fort Newton was born in 1878. Joseph Fort Newton passed on in 1949.
 
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“To dig in one’s own earth with one’s own spade - does life hold anything better?” -Beverly Nichols

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“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . . and expectation.” -Jack Nicklaus
 
“Focus on remedies, not faults.” -Jack Nicklaus
 
Jack Nicklaus was born in 1940. He is an American professional golfer.
 
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“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard and then succeed on purpose.” -G. K. Nielson
 
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“All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The doer alone learneth.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.” [English translation]
“Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.” [original German]
-Friedrich Nietzsche: “Twilight of the Idols” (1888), ‘Maxims and Arrows,’ 8
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1844 in Röcken, Saxony, Prussia. He was German philosopher, classical scholar, poet, philologist (student of the history of language), composer, and critic of culture. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche passed on at 55 years of age on 25 August 1900 in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empire.
 
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“All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.” -Earl Nightingale

“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” -Earl Nightingale

“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.” -Earl Nightingale
 
Earl Nightingale was born in 1921. He was an American entrepreneur, writer, radio announcer, and motivational speaker. He was the voice in the early 1950’s of “Sky King,” the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. He is known as the author of the motivational book, “The Strangest Secret.” Earl Nightingale passed on in 1989.
 
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“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.” -Chester W. Nimitz
 
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.” -Chester W. Nimitz
 
Chester William Nimitz was born in 1885. He was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. Chester William Nimitz passed on in 1966.
 
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“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.” -Anaïs Nin
 
Anaïs Nin was born on 21 February 1903 as Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell. She was a French-born American writer and diarist. She became famous for her published journals, which span several decades. Anaïs Nin passed on at 73 years of age on 14 January 1977.
 
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“If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.” -Kitarp Nishida
 
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“A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.” -Louis Nizer
 
Louis Nizer was born in 1902. He was an English-born American lawyer. Louis Nizer passed on in 1994.

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“Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” -Alex Noble
 
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“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by the short-range failures.” -Charles C. Noble: speech at a conference meeting (1951) at Syracuse University
 
Charles C. Noble was a dean of Hendricks Memorial Chapel at Syracuse University.
 
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“And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.” -Han Nolan
 
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“Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.” -Kathleen Norris
 
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” -Kathleen Norris
 
“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” -Kathleen Norris
 
Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris was born in 1880. Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris passed on in 1966.
 
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“Half the things that people do not succeed in, are through fear of making the attempt.” -James Northcote
 
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“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.” -Eleanor Holmes Norton
 
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born in 1937.
 
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“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.” -Michael Novak
 
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“Be virtuous and you will be happy but you will be lonesome sometimes.” -Edgar Wilson Nye
 
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Quotations by Authors Oa through Oz

10/11/2018

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“If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.” -Dallin H. Oaks: “Be Not Deceived” (October 2004)
 
“Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.” -Dallin H. Oaks
 
“When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.” -Dallin H. Oaks: ‘Reach Out and Climb!’ published in “New Era” (August 1985)
 
Dallin Harris Oaks was born on 12 August 1932 in Provo, Utah, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
 
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“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.” -Joyce Carol Oates
 
Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938. She is an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, novella writer, and poet. Among her novels are, “Black Water,” “What I Lived For,” and “Blonde.”
 
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“Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.” -Wayne Oates
 
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“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.” -Cynthia Occelli
 
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“I don’t dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a number.” -Nola Ochs
 
Nola Ochs was born on 22 November 1911 in Jetmore, Kansas, United States of America. At 95 years of age, on 14 May 2007, she became the world’s oldest college graduate up to that time. Nola Oaks passed on at 105 years of age on 9 December 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.
 
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.” -William Ogden
 
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“Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it.” -James T. O’Brien
 
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“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
 
“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” -Georgia O’Keefe
 
“You have to get talked about to have your work sell.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
 
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on 15 November 1887 in Town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States of America. She became an artist. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe passed on at 98 years of age on 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
 
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.” -Judith Olney
 
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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” -Ken Olsen (1977)
 
Ken Olsen founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, and was later its president and chairman.
 
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“It’s a long snake that has no tail.” -Austin O’Malley: “Keystones of Thought” (1914), page 9
 
“The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.” -Austin O’Malley
 
Austin O’Malley was born on 1 October 1858 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became an ophthalmologist and a professor of English literature at the University of Notre Dame. Austin O’Malley passed on at 73 years of age on 26 February 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim: “The Wise”
 
James Oppenheim was born on 24 May 1882 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He became a short story writer, a novelist, and the founder and editor of “The Seven Arts” literary magazine. James Oppenheim passed on at 50 years of age on 4 August 1932 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904. He became an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons, detonated on 16 July 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Julius Robert Oppenheimer passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1967.
 
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“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” -Robert Orben
 
“Live your life so that if someone says ‘Be yourself,’ it’s good advice.” -Robert Orben
 
Robert Orben was born on 4 March 1927 in the United States of America. He is a magician and a comedy writer.
 
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“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.” -John Boyle O’Reilly: as quoted in James Jeffrey Roche: “The Life of John Boyle O’Reilly” (1891), ‘Rules of the Road’
 
John Boyle O’Reilly was born on 28 June 1844 in Dowth, Republic of Ireland. He became an Irish-born American writer, poet, journalist, and advocate for Irish self-rule. Many of his poems are found in his books, “Songs from the Southern Seas, and Other Poems” (1873) and “Songs, Legends and Ballads” (1878). John Boyle O’Reilly passed on at 46 years of age on 10 August 1890 in Hull, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
 
Leonard Orr was born on 15 November 1937 in Walton, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” -José Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses” (1929)

José Ortega y Gasset was born on 9 May 1883 in Madrid, Spain. He became a philosopher and an essayist. José Ortega y Gasset passed on at 72 years of age on 18 October 1955 in Madrid, Spain.
 
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“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.” -W. A. Orton
 
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“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ronald E. Osborn
 
Ronald Edwin Osborn was born on 5 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became a Christian reverend. Ronald Edwin Osborn passed on at 81 years of age on 1 October 1998 in Lane County, Oregon, United States of America.
 
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“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood
 
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become it’s a labor of love. They love what they do.” -Charles Osgood
 
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
 
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
 -William Osler
 
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
 -William Osler
 
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -William Osler
 
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
 
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
 
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” -William Osler
 
“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” -William Osler
 
“We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.” -William Osler
 
“What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.” -William Osler
 
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.” -William Osler
 
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.” -William Osler
 
William Osler was born on 12 July 1849 in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada. He became a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England.
 
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You have to take the good
with the bad, smile when
you are sad, love what
you’ve got and remember
what you had. Always
forgive but not forget,
learn from your mistake
but never regret, people
change, things go wrong,
just remember life goes on.
-Joel Osteen
 
“You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” -Joel Osteen
 
Joel Osteen was born in 1963. He is a writer, a televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood church in Houston, Texas. Mister Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches more than seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in more than one hundred countries.
 
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“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.” -Jesse Owens
 
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
 
“One chance is all you need.” -Jesse Owens
 
James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens was born on 12 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, United States of America. He became a professional athlete. In 1935, he set six track and field world records in less than one hour. James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens passed on at 66 years of age on 31 March 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
 
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“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the Earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” -John Owen
 
“Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.” -John Owen
 
John Owen was born in 1616. John Owen passed on in 1683.
 
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Quotations by Authors Pa through Pz

10/10/2018

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“My life is like one long obstacle course with me being the chief obstacle.” -Jack Paar
 
Jack Harold Paar was born on 1 May 1918 in Canton, Ohio, United States of America. He became a writer, a talk show host, and a comedian. He is known for being the host of the television program, “The Tonight Show” (1957 - 1962). Jack Harold Paar passed on at 85 years of age on 27 January 2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.” -Ignace Paderewski
 
Ignace Paderewski was born in 1860. Ignace Paderewski passed on in 1941.
 
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“Don’t scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.” -Douglas Pagels
 
Douglas Pagels was born in 1950.
 
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” -Satchel Paige
 
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” -attributed to Satchel Paige
 
Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige was born in 1906. He became an American baseball player, and pitched in several leagues, including Major League Baseball. Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige passed on in 1982.
 
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“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.” -Thomas Paine
 
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” -Thomas Paine
 
“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” -Thomas Paine
 
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” -Thomas Paine
 
“We have it in our power to begin the world again.” -Thomas Paine
 
Thomas Paine, spelled ‘Pane’ before 1774, was born in 1737. He was a British-born American. He became a political theorist, a political writer, and a political pamphleteer. He is known as the author of “Common Sense” (1776). Thomas Paine passed on in 1809.
 
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” -Arnold Palmer
 
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“People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.” -Paul Palmer
 
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“She felt . . . well, not beautiful, but something better: knowing she didn’t have to be.” -Mary C. Pangborn
 
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“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.” -Dorothy Parker
 
“There is entirely too much charm around and something must be done to stop it.” -Dorothy Parker: ‘These Much Too Charming People’ in “The New Yorker” (1928) magazine
 
“They sicken of the calm that know the storm.” -Dorothy Parker
 
“To keep something, you must care for it - to care for it you must understand what kind of care it requires.” -Dorothy Parker
 
Dorothy Parker was born as Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 in Long Beach, New Jersey, United States of America. She became a short-story writer, a poet, a screenwriter, a humorist, a critic, and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Dorothy Parker passed on at 73 years of age on 7 June 1967 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” -C. Northcote Parkinson
 
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, also known as C. Northcote Parkinson, was born in 1909. Cyril Northcote Parkinson passed on in 1993.
 
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“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.” -Dolly Parton
 
Dolly Parton was born in 1946. She became an American country music singer.
 
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“Continuous eloquence wearies.” -Blaise Pascal
 
“Little things console us because little things afflict us.” -Blaise Pascal
 
“The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know.” -Blaise Pascal: “Pensées” (“Thoughts”) (1670), ‘Section IV: On the Means of the Belief,’ number 680
 
Blaise Pascal was born in 1623. He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, moralist, and a Christian theologian. Blaise Pascal passed on in 1662.
 
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“Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.” -Boris Pasternak
 
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” -Boris Pasternak
 
Boris Pasternak was born in 1890. He was a Russian writer. Boris Pasternak passed on in 1960.
 
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“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur: lecture (1854)
 
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. He was a French chemist and microbiologist. He is known as the inventor of the pasteurization process. Louis Pasteur passed on in 1895.
 
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“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.” -Alan Paton

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.” -Alan Paton
 
“There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.” -Alan Paton
 
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.” -Alan Paton
 
“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.” -Alan Paton
 
Alan Stewart Paton was born in 1903. He was a South African writer. Alan Stewart Paton passed on in 1988.
 
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“I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am, most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics; therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.” -Linus Pauling
 
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” -Linus Pauling
 
Linus Carl Pauling was born in 1901. He was an American chemist, biochemist, writer, and educator. He is known as one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Linus Carl Pauling passed on in 1994.
 
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“The future is green and low tech. We’ll watch aquariums, not TVs.” -A. Pavletich
 
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“Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.” -Paxton
 
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“That’s what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!” -Minnie Pearl
 
Minnie Pearl is a pseudonym of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who was born on 25 October 1912. Sarah Ophelia Colley passed on in 1996.
 
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“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening.” -M. Scott Peck
 
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green
-George Peele
 
George Peele was born in about 1558. George Peele passed on in about 1597.
 
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“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
 
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“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” -William Penn
 
William Penn was born in 1644. He became a Quaker leader and an advocate of religious freedom. He oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe. William Penn passed on in 1718.
 
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“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.” -Alexander Penney
 
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“I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.” -James Cash Penney

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“Someday may never come. So live each day better than the last. That way you’ll wake up with so much excitement and anticipation you’ll jump out of bed and shout, ‘I can’t wait!’” -Bob Perks
 
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“He conquers who endures.” -Persius
 
Aulus Persius Flaccus, also known simply as Persius, was born on C.E. 4 December 34 in Volterra, Italy. He became a Roman poet and a satirist. Aulus Persius Flaccus, also known simply as Persius, passed on in C.E. 62 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” -Laurence J. Peter
 
Laurence Johnston Peter was born on 16 September 1919. He was a Canadian teacher, writer, and hierarchiologist. Laurence Johnston Peter passed on at 70 years of age on 12 January 1990.
 
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“Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.” -Tom Peters
 
Tom J. Peters was born in 1942. He is a writer and a speaker.
 
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“The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.” -Peter G. Peterson (born 1926)
 
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“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.” -Francesco Petrarch: as quoted in Bergen Evans: “Dictionary of Quotations” (1968)
 
Francesco Petrarca, also known as Petrarch, was born on 20 July 1304. He was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy. He is known for developing the concept of the ‘Dark Ages.’ Francesco Petrarca passed on at 69 years of age on 19 July 1374.
 
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“He has gone over to the majority.” -Petronius
 
“We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” -Petronius
 
Petronius Arbiter, also known simply as Petronius, was a courtier during the reign of Nero in ancient Rome. He is generally believed to be the author of the “Satyricon,” a satirical novel possibly written during the Neronian era.
 
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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” -Austin Phelps
 
Austin Phelps was born on 7 January 1820 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian pastor and a college professor and president of Andover Theological Seminary. Austin Phelps passed on at 70 years of age on 13 October 1890 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America.
 
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“I thoroughly believe in a universal education for both men and women; but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable that a college course without the Bible.” -William Lyon Phelps
 
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“Great wealth and content seldom live together.” -Bob Phillips
 
“The person who knows everything has the most to learn.” -Bob Phillips
 
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“It is often to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” -Frederick Phillips
 
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“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” -Wendell Phillips
 
“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.” -Wendell Phillips
 
Wendell Phillips was born on 29 November 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an orator (public speaker). He opened a law practice in 1834 in Boston. Wendell Phillips passed on in 1884.
 
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“If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.” -Marge Piercy
 
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“To hear patiently, to weigh deliberately and dispassionately, and to decide impartially; these are the chief duties of a Judge.” -Albert Pike
 
Albert Pike was born in 1809. Albert Pike passed on in 1891.
 
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“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” -Robert M. Pirsig
 
“We’re in such a hurry most of the time that we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.” -Robert M. Pirsig
 
Robert Maynard Pirsig was born on 6 September 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He is an American philosopher and writer.
 
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“The day, water, Sun, Moon, night . . . I do not have to purchase these things with money.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
 
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“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” -Pliny the Elder
 
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.” -Pliny the Elder (C.E. 23 - C.E. 79)
 
Gaius Plinius Secundus, also known as Pliny the Elder, was born in C.E. 23. He was a statesman and scholar of ancient Rome. Gaius Plinius Secundus passed away on C.E. 25 August 79.
 
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“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” -Pliny the Younger
 
“His only fault is that he has no fault.” -Pliny the Younger
 
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo, and also known as Pliny the Younger, was born in C.E. 61. He was a writer, a lawyer, and a magistrate of ancient Rome. Pliny’s uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped to raise and educate him. Both Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger were witnesses to the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in C.E. 79, in which Pliny the Elder perished. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus passed on in C.E. 112.
 
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“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations of words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.” -Plotinus
 
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.” -Plotinus
 
Plotinus was born in about C.E. 205. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. He is known for his three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. Plotinus passed on at about 65 years of age in C.E. 270.
 
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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” -Plutarch
 
“Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.” -Plutarch
 
“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore, to use it, not to misuse it.” -Plutarch
 
“The wildest colts make the best horses.” -Plutarch
 
Plutarch was born in about C.E. 46. He was a historian, an essayist, a biographer, and a philosopher of ancient Greece. He is known for his “Parallel Lives” and “Moralia.” Plutarch passed on in about C.E. 120.
 
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“I am a twelfth-generation descendant of William Bradford the second governor of the Plymouth colony and I deeply admire him. He walked with God and that is what I wish to do.” -Mary Ellen Pogue
 
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.” -Jules Henri Poincaré
 
Jules Henri Poincaré, also known simply as Henri Poincaré, was born on 29 April 1854. He was a French mathematician and theoretical physicist. Jules Henri Poincaré passed on at 58 years of age on 17 July 1912.
 
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“Work is what you do so that some time you won’t have to do it anymore.” -Alfred Polgar
 
Alfred Polgar was born in 1873. He became an essayist. Alfred Polgar passed on in 1955.
 
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” -Mary Pettibone Poole: “A Glass Eye at a Keyhole” (1938), ‘Made in Manhattan’; type of work: book of aphorisms and apothegms
 
Mary Pettibone Poole was a writer. Mary Pettibone Poole passed on in October 1941 and rests in New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood
-Alexander Pope
 
“Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.” -Alexander Pope: “Essay on Man” (1733), epistle II, line 104
 
“There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.” -Alexander Pope
 
“True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.” -Alexander Pope
 
“While we live we must make the best of life.” -Alexander Pope
 
Alexander Pope was born in 1688, and lame from birth. He was an English satirist and poet who wrote in heroic couplet forms and satirical verses. He is known for his translation of “Homer” into English. Alexander Pope passed away on 30 May 1744.
 
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“Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.” -Karl Popper
 
Karl Popper was born in 1902.
 
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“They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own.” -Antonio Porchia

“A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.” -Antonio Porchia: “Voces” (1943), as translated from Spanish by W. S. Merwin
 
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” -Antonio Porchia
 
Antonio Porchia was born on 13 November 1885. He was an Italian poet. Antonio Porchia passed on in 1968.
 
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“What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.” -Eleanor H. Porter: “Pollyanna” (1912)
 
Eleanor H. Porter was born in 1868. Eleanor H. Porter passed on in 1920.
 
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“The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.” -Ezra Pound
 
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. He was an American expatriate writer, a poet, and a critic who lived in Asia. His best-known works include “Ripostes” (1912), “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic “The Cantos” (1917 - 1969). Ezra Weston Loomis Pound passed on at 87 years of age on 1 November 1972.
 
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“Write to be understand, speak to be heard, read to grow.” -Lawrence Clark Powell
 
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“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.” -Terry Pratchett
 
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” -Terry Pratchett
 
Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. He became a fantasy novelist. Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett passed on at 66 years of age on 12 March 2015 in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England.
 
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“If anyone wants to understand the course of man on Earth he must consider the fact of the long pause, three million years on the level of savagery, ten thousand years on the level of dependence on the fruits of hand labor, and a hundred or a hundred and fifty years of sudden sharp rise. One hundred or 150 years is the time included in what we call progress in man’s history.” -E. Parmalee Prentice
 
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“Like sands through the hourglass so are the days of our lives.” -attributed to Ed Prentiss: “Days of Our Lives” (1965) television show series
 
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“She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small mysterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.” -Nancy Price

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“A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
“Company policy means there is no understandable reason for this action.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
If a fisherman fibs to us,
Is his fib amphibious?
-Herbert V. Prochnow
 
“Ignorance is a voluntary condition.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
“One thing we have never been able to save for a rainy day is an umbrella.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
“The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.” -H. V. Prochnow
 
“The difference between psychoneurosis and nervousness is about $150.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
“The trouble with opportunity is it always come disguised as hard work.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior was born on 19 May 1897 in Wilton, Wisconsin, United States of America. He became a banker, an event toastmaster, and a writer. Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior passed on at 101 years of age on 29 September 1998 in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust
 
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
 
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.” -Marcel Proust
 
“Things don’t change, but by and by our wishes change.” -Marcel Proust
 
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” -Marcel Proust
 
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” -Marcel Proust
 
Marcel Proust was born in 1871. He was a French novelist. Marcel Proust passed on in 1922.
 
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“You don’t have to be smart. You don’t have to be beautiful. All you have to do is be yourself.” -Richard Pryor
 
Richard Pryor was an American actor.
 
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“We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and brave and patient; and we’ve got to study and think, and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds.” -Philip Pullman: “His Dark Materials” (1995 - 2000), page 1300; type of work: trilogy
 
Philip Pullman was born on 19 October 1946. He is a writer.
 
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“Fear and worry are just the misuse of the creative powers we originally got to dream.” -Jannie Putter
 
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“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.” -Pythagoras of Samos (about 570 B.C.E. - about 496 B.C.E.): as quoted in Maturin Murray Ballou: “Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors” (1894)
 
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.” -Pythagoras

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.” -Pythagoras of Samos (about 570 B.C.E. - about 496 B.C.E.): as quoted in “Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers,” ‘Pythagoras,’ Section 23 and 24, as translated in “Dictionary of Quotations” (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, page 370
 
Pythagoras of Samos was born in about 570 B.C.E. on the island of Samos. He became a scientist, a mathematician and an Ionian philosopher of ancient Greece. Pythagoras of Samos passed on at about 76 years of age in about 496 B.C.E. in Metapontum.
 
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“I think ordinary people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary people in this country are sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am!” -Monty Python 
 
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Quotations by Authors Qa through Qz

10/9/2018

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“If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both.” -Francis Quarles: as quoted in Charles Baldwyn: “Enchyridion” (1822)
 
Francis Quarles was born in 1592. He was an English poet. Francis Quarles passed on in 1644.
 
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“You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do.” -Nido Qubein
 
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” -Nido Qubein
 
Nido Qubein was born in 1948. He is a Lebanon-born American writer, business consultant, and motivational speaker.
 
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“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.” -Josiah Quincy
 
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“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. So I suppose the best piece of advice I could give anyone is pretty simple: get a life.” -Anna Quindlen: “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”
 
Anna Quindlen was born in 1952. She is an American writer.
 
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“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.” -Quintilian
 
“If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.” -Quintilian
 
“The learned understand the theory of art, the unlearned its pleasure.” -Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria”
 
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also known simply as Quintilian or Quintillian or Quinctilian, was born in about C.E. 35 in Calagurris, Fibularia, Hispania (now Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain). He was an orator and rhetorician of ancient Rome. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus passed on in about C.E. 100.
 
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Quotations by Authors Ra through Rz

10/8/2018

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“Nature abhors a vacuum.” -François Rabelais
 
François Rabelais was born in 1494. He was a French monk, satirist, and physician. François Rabelais passed on in 1553.
 
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“As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
 
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner
 
Gilda Radner was born in 1946. She was an American actress and comedienne. Gilda Radner passed on in 1989.
 
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“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love, light, and compassion. Life will be beautiful.” -Amit Ray
 
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“This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.” -Scott Reed
 
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“Some people have such open minds that nothing stays in them long.” -J. Tudor Rees
 
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“If you take care of the little things the big things take care of themselves.” -R. Reese
 
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“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” -Christopher Reeve
 
“You make a choice or set a goal and let people know about it. Then just getting started leads to the discovery of internal resources that help us to go further than we ever thought we could.” -Christopher Reeve: “Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life” (2002)
 
Christopher D’Olier Reeve was born on 25 September 1952 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an actor. He is known for his portrayal of the fictional character Superman. Christopher D’Olier Reeve passed on at 52 years of age on 10 October 2004 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States of America.
 
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“You can if you think you can.” -George Reeves (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
 
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“Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others.  The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated.” -G. Richard Reiger: as quoted in “Attitudes of Gratitude,” page 39

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“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.” -Jules Renard
 
“If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.” -Jules Renard
 
“The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.” -Jules Renard

Jules Renard was born in 1864. Jules Renard passed on in 1920.
 
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“The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.” -Agnes Repplier
 
Agnes Repplier was born in 1858. Agnes Repplier passed on in 1950.
 
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“I’m very determined and stubborn. There’s a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.” -Mary Lou Retton
 
“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” -Mary Lou Retton
 
Mary Lou Retton is an American Olympic gymnast.
 
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“I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.” -Cecil Rhodes
 
Cecil Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. He was a British businessman, diamond mining magnate, and Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890 - 1896). Cecil Rhodes passed on at 48 years of age on 26 March 1902 in Muizenberg, Cape Colony (now South Africa).
 
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“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” -Anne Rice: “The Witching Hour” (1990)
 
Anne Rice was born in 1941. She is an American writer.
 
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“It doesn’t matter where you came from. It only matters where you’re going.” -Condoleezza Rice
 
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“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.” -Grantland Rice
 
Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice was born in 1880. He was an American journalist and sports writer. Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice passed on in 1954.
 
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“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” -Norman B. Rice
 
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“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“A scholar knows no boredom.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
Jean Paul is a pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, who was born on 21 March 1763 in Wunsiedel, Holy Roman Empire (now Wunsiedel, Germany). He became a humor novelist. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter passed on at 62 years of age on 14 November 1825 in Bayreuth, German Confederation (now Bayreuth, Germany).
 
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“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” -Edward V. Rickenbacker
 
Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker was born on 8 October 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. He became an American fighter pilot with the rank of captain during World War 1, and later a businessman. Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker passed on at 82 years of age on 23 July 1973 in Zürich, Switzerland.
 
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“To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.” -James Whitcomb Riley
 
James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in a two-room cabin in Greenfield, Indiana, United States of America. He became a writer and a poet. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that he wrote, the majority are in dialect. His best-known works include “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man.” He served on the staff of the “Indianapolis Journal” newspaper. James Whitcomb Riley passed on at 66 years of age on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
 
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“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” -Pat Riley
 
“Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.” -Pat Riley
 
“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won’t get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.” -Pat Riley
 
Pat Riley is a basketball coach.
 
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
 
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, also known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was born on 4 December 1875 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He became a German poet and novelist. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke passed on at 51 years of age on 29 December 1926 in Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.
 
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“I am no longer willing to drive into the future using my rearview mirror as my tool of navigation.” -Tony Robbins 
 
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” -Tony Robbins
 
“Keep your goals in front of you and your fears behind you.” -Tony Robbins
 
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins
 
“Successful people ask better questions and as a result they get better answers.” -Anthony Robbins
 
Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins was born on 29 February 1960 in North Hollywood, California, United States of America. He is an actor, a self-help writer, and a motivational speaker.
 
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How a minority,
     Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
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-Leonard H. Robbins: “Minorities”
 
Leonard H. Robbins was born in 1877. He was an American writer. Leonard H. Robbins passed on in 1947.
 
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“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert
 
Cavett Robert was born 14 November 1907 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America. In 1973, he founded the National Speakers Association. Cavett Robert passed on at 89 years of age on 15 September 1997.
 
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“Shared grief diminishes, but shared joy increases.” -Spider Robinson
 
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“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.” -Sylvia Robinson
 
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“There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.” -Victor Robinson
 
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“Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior
 
“I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common, not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior
 
John Davison Rockefeller, Junior was born on 29 January 1874. He was an American financier and philanthropist. John Davison Rockefeller, Junior passed on at 86 years of age on 11 May 1960.
 
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“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller
 
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” -John D. Rockefeller, as quoted in Orison Swett Marden: “How They Succeeded” (1901)
 
“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build.” -John D. Rockefeller, Senior: as quoted in Allen Nevins: “Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller,” volume 1
 
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller: as quoted in Zig Ziglar: “Steps to the Top” (1985), page 16
 
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” -John D. Rockefeller: as attributed in Peter Collier and David Horowitz: “The Rockefellers” (1976)
 
“When work goes out of style, we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.” -John D. Rockefeller
 
John Davison Rockefeller, Senior was born on 8 July 1839. He became an industrialist and a philanthropist. In 1870, he co-founded the Standard Oil Company. John Davison Rockefeller, Senior passed on at 97 years of age on 23 May 1937.
 
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“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” -Rikki Rogers
 
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“Within most human beings lies a great resource normally untapped, but there, waiting to be summoned up in moments of stress. Call it strength, courage - whatever it is, it pulls us through against the longest odds.” -Ruth Roman: commenting after the rescue at sea of herself and her son, following the sinking of the ship “Andrea Doria”
 
Ruth Roman was born in 1922. She was an American actress. Ruth Roman passed on in 1999.
 
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“At the right time, in the right light, everything is extraordinary.” -Aaron Rose
 
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“Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you.” -Will Rose
 
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“Great nations and great empires only live so long as they are thrifty; the moment they begin to waste or disburse their resources, the day of their end is at hand.” -Lord Rosebery
 
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“Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.” -Sam Rosen
 
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“All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.” -Ruth Ross
 
“There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it’s what we do with them that’s important.” -Ruth Ross (similar quotation attributed to Jim Rohn)
 
Ruth Miriam Ross, also known as Ruth Miriam Burnard, was born as Ruth Miriam Guscott in 1920 in Wanganui, Wanganui, New Zealand. She became a historian. Ruth Miriam Ross passed away on 30 August 1982.
 
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“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.” -Jean Rostand
 
Jean Rostand was born in 1894. He was a French biologist and philosopher. Jean Rostand passed on in 1977.
 
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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” -Leo Rosten
 
Leo Rosten was born in 1908. He was a Polish-born American writer and social scientist. Leo Rosten passed on in 1997.
 
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“There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.” -Kyle Rote, Junior
 
Kyle Rote, Junior is a soccer player.
 
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” -Joseph Roux
 
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” -J. K. Rowling: line spoken by fictional character Albus Dumbledore

“It is impossible to live without failing, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” -J. K. Rowling
 
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” -J. K. Rowling: “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997)
 
J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith are pseudonyms of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling, who was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. She is a novelist and a screenwriter known as the author of the “Harry Potter” children’s books.
 
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“There is no disgrace to get knocked down - so long as you get back up.” -Darell Royal
 
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“One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we act because of the way we feel, we often feel because of the way we act. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you wish you felt.” -Gretchen Rubin
 
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“Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.” -Don Miguel Ruiz
 
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“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.” -Benjamin Rush
 
Benjamin Rush was born in 1746. Benjamin Rush passed on in 1813.
 
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“If you don’t pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes, and the first thing you know, the periphery is the center.” -Dean Rusk
 
Dean Rusk was born in 1909. He was an American politician. Dean Rusk passed on in 1994.
 
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“Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.” -John Ruskin
 
“I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, incredibly merciful.” -John Ruskin
 
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.” -John Ruskin
 
“It is a great and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there; never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.” -John Ruskin
 
“The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.” -John Ruskin
 
“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.” -John Ruskin
 
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” -John Ruskin
 
John Ruskin was born in 1819 in London, England. He became an art critic, a social critic, a poet, a writer, a draftsman, a watercolorist, a patron of the arts, and a philanthropist. He is known for his detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. He organized the Society of Friends of Living Creatures to prevent cruelty to animals. John Ruskin passed on in 1900.
 
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“Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite; joy and happiness is just around the corner.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” -Bertrand A. Russell: “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914 - 1944” (1968), volume II, chapter 5

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
“When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born in Monmouthshire, Wales in 1872. He became an essayist, a logician, a mathematician, a historian, a philosopher, and a social critic. He taught at leading British and American universities. Bertrand Arthur William Russell passed on in 1970.
 
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“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” -David Russell
 
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“What creates the beauty of the world is the love we have for it.” -Roma Ryan
 
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10/7/2018

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“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.” -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
 
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“As the essence of courage is to stake one’s life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.” -William Salter
 
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“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.” -George Santayana: “The Sense of Beauty” (1896), page 267
 
“To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.” -George Santayana
 
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, also known as George Santayana, was born on 16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain. He became an American philosopher, essayist, novelist, and poet. George Santayana passed on at 88 years of age on 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.” -May Sarton
 
May Sarton is a pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton, who was born on 3 May 1912 in Wondelgem, Belgium. She became an American poet, novelist, essayist, and memoirist. Eleanore Marie Sarton passed on at 83 years of on 16 July 1995 in York, Maine, United States of America.
 
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“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
 
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born in 1905. He was a French novelist, biographer, dramatist, screenwriter, literary critic, and philosopher. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre passed on in 1980.
 
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“Life is a process. We are a process. The Universe is a process.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
 
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“The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.” -Paul Scherer
 
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“Every important new idea, when it first appears, is ridiculed.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
 
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
 
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
 
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788. He was a German philosopher. He is known for his book, “The World as Will and Representation.” Arthur Schopenhauer passed on in 1860.
 
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“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” -Howard Schultz
 
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“Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny.” -Carl Schurz
 
Carl Schurz was born in 1829. He was a German-born American politician, journalist, and reformer. Carl Schurz passed on in 1906.
 
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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” -Charles Schwab
 
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.” -Charles Schwab
 
Charles M. Schwab was born in 1862. He became a steel industry executive. Charles M. Schwab passed on in 1939.
 
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“Happiness comes from what we are, not what we have.” -Richard G. Scott (1990)
 
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“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.” -Zachary Scott
 
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“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” -Frank Scully
 
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“You don’t demand respect, you earn it.” -Steve Seidler
 
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“This iz Chief Inspector Clouseau speaking on the pheaun.” -Richard Henry Peter Sellers
 
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“There must be more to life than having everything.” -Maurice Sendak
 
Maurice Bernard Sendak was born in 1928. He became a writer and an illustrator of children’s books
 
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“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” -Robert W. Service
 
Robert William Service was born in 1874. He was an English-Canadian bank clerk, writer, and humor poet who lived in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush era. He is known for his poems, ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’ and ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee,’ published in his first book, “Songs of a Sourdough.” Robert William Service passed on in 1958.
 
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“We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.” -Julia Seton: as quoted in “Forbes” (1965)
 
Julia Seton was born in 1889. She became a writer. Julia Seton passed on in 1975.
 
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“Give away what you most want to receive.” -Robin Sharma
 
Robin Sharma was born in 1965.
 
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“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.” -Pam Shaw
 
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“If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “On Being Human” (1982)
 
Fulton John Sheen was born in 1895. He was an American bishop in the Catholic Church, known for his preaching and his work on television and radio. Fulton John Sheen passed on in 1979.
 
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“Live, and be happy, and make others so.” -Mary Shelley
 
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797. She was married to Percy Bysshe Shelly in 1817. She became an English novelist and poet. She is known as the writer of the book, “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus” (January 1818). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley passed on in 1851.
 
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” -Percy Bysshe Shelly
 
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792. He was an English poet. He was married in 1816 to his second wife, Mary Shelley, who was the writer of the fictional story, “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus” (January 1818). Percy Bysshe Shelley passed on in 1822 near Spezzia, Italy.

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“You don’t have to get it right the first time.” -Barbara Sher
 
Barbara Sher is a professional speaker and a writer.
 
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“I presume you’re mortal and may err.” -James Shirley
 
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“All the wild ideas of unbalanced agitators the world over, in their ignorant and pitiable quest for happiness through revolution, confiscation of property, and crime cannot overthrow the eternal truth that the one route to happiness through property or government is over the broad and open highway of service. And service always means industry, thrift, respect for authority, and recognition of the rights of others.” -W. G. Sibley
 
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“If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.” -Henry Sidney
 
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“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” -Philip Sidney
 
Philip Sidney was born in 1554. He was an English courtier, writer, poet, and soldier. Philip Sidney passed on at 31 years of age in 1586.
 
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“Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased.” -Sterling W. Sill
 
Sterling Welling Sill was born in 1903. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sterling Welling Sill passed on in 1994.
 
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” -Beverly Sills
 
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” -Beverly Sills
 
Beverly Sills is a pseudonym of Belle Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman, who was born on 25 May 1929 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She became a soprano opera singer. Bell Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman passed on at 78 years of age on 2 July 2007 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“If each one of us could make just one other happy the whole world would know happiness.” -Georges Simenon
 
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon lived in Paris, France. He became a crime novelist, and wrote under 17 pseudonyms.
 
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“Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.” -Charles Simmons
 
Charles Simmons was born in 1798. Charles Simmons passed on in 1856.
 
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
 
Frank Sinatra was born in 1915. He was an American singer and actor. Frank Sinatra passed on in 1998.
 
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“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” -Simon Sinek
 
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“Do what you love and the money will follow.” -Marsha Sinetar
 
“You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.” -Marsha Sinetar
 
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“We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: as quoted in “New York Times Magazine” (26 November 1978)
 
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born as Izaak Zynger on 21 November 1902 in Leoncin, Congress Poland. He became and American novelist. Isaac Bashevis Singer passed on at 88 years of age on 24 July 1991 in Surfside, Florida, United States of America.
 
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” -B. F. Skinner
 
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B. F. Skinner, was born in 1904. Burrhus Frederic Skinner passed on in 1990.
 
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“We’re electrical beings living in a magnetic environment . . . Because we’re finely tuned to subtle energy fields when they vary, as they would on top of a mountain, we change biologically and psychologically too.” -Louis Slesin
 
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“The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” -Adam Smith
 
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” -Adam Smith
 
Adam Smith was born in 1723. He was a Scottish moral philosopher and economist. He is known for “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” and “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” also known simply as, “The Wealth of Nations.” Adam Smith passed on in 1790.
 
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“I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” -Barbara Smith
 
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“Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory.” -Betty Smith
 
Betty Smith is a pseudonym of Betty Finch, who was born as Elizabeth Lillian Wehnerin on 15 December 1896 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She became a novelist and a playwright. She is known for her books, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (1943), “Tomorrow Will Be Better” (1948), and “Joy in the Morning” (1963), among others. Betty Finch passed on at 75 years of age on 17 January 1972 in Shelton, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“If you don’t place your foot on the rope you’ll never cross the chasm.” -Liz Smith
 
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“I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don’t desire.” -Logan Pearsall Smith
 
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” -Logan Pearsall Smith
 
Logan Pearsall Smith was born on 18 October 1865 in Millville, New Jersey, United States of America. He became an essayist, an aphorist, and a critic. Logan Pearsall Smith passed on at 80 years of age on 2 March 1946 in London, England.
 
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“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.” -Margaret Chase Smith
 
Margaret Chase Smith was born in 1897. She was an American Senator representing the state of Maine (1949 - 1973). Margaret Chase Smith passed on in 1995.
 
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“Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.” -R. Smith
 
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“I like him and his wife. He is so ladylike and she is such a perfect gentleman.” -Sydney Smith
 
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.” -Sydney Smith
 
“The clergy are allowed about twenty-six hours every year for the instruction of their fellow creatures.” -Sydney Smith
 
“The preterpluperfect tense has always occasioned him much uneasiness though he has appeared to the world cheerful and serene.” -Sydney Smith
 
Sydney Smith was born in 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. He became a wit, an essayist, and an Anglican clergyman. In 1802, he cofounded, “The Edinburgh Review.” Sydney Smith passed on in 1845.
 
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“Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.” -Tobias Smollett
 
Tobias George Smollett was born in 1721. He was a Scottish poet and writer. He is known for picaresque novels such as, “The Adventures of Roderick Random” and “The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle,” which influenced later novelists including Charles Dickens. Tobias George Smollett passed on in 1771.
 
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“No one is fit to be trusted with power . . . No one . . . Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he’s capable of. If he does not know it he is not fit to govern others. And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate.” -Charles Percy Snow

“‘You do not think highly of men, Mr. Eliot.’ ‘I am one,’ I said.” -C. P. Snow: “The Light & the Dark” (1947)
 
Charles Percy Snow, also known as C. P. Snow, was born on 15 October 1905 in Leicester, England. He became a novelist, a scientist, and a civil servant. Charles Percy Snow passed on at 74 years of age on 1 July 1980 in London, England.
 
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“Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible!” -Patrick Snow: “Creating Your Own Destiny” (2010)
 
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” -Ralph W. Sockman
 
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” -Ralph W. Sockman
 
Ralph Washington Sockman was born on 1 October 1889 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Zellah Endly. He became a senior pastor of United Methodist Christ Church in New York City and a radio personality (1928 - 1962). Ralph Washington Sockman passed on at 80 years of age on 29 August 1970 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“And this too shall pass.” -Solomon
 
“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” -Solomon
 
“Being cheerful keeps you healthy.” -Solomon
 
“I returned, and saw under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill - but time and chance happens to them all.” -Solomon, in “The Bible,” ‘Ecclesiastes,’ chapter 9, verse 11
 
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Ecclesiastes,’ chapter 5, verse 5
 
Solomon was a tenth century B.C.E. King of ancient Israel and the reputed author of three books in the Old Testament of “The Bible.”
 
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“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” -Nancy D. Solomon
 
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“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
 
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on 11 December 1918 in Kislovodsk, Russia. He became an essayist, a novelist, a historian, and a short story writer. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn passed on at 89 years of age on 3 August 2008 in Moscow, Russia.
 
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“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.” -Sophocles
 
“Heaven never helps the man who will not act.” -Sophocles
 
“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” -Sophocles
 
“Time eases all things.” -Sophocles
 
Sophocles was born in 496 B.C.E. He became a tragedian in ancient Greece, writing 123 plays during the course of his life, of which seven survived in complete form: “Ajax,” “Antigone,” “The Women of Trachis,” “Oedipus the King,” “Electra,” “Philoctetes,” and “Oedipus at Colonus.” Sophocles passed on at about 90 years of age in 406 B.C.E.
 
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“It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.” -Robert Southey
 
Robert Southey was born in 1774. He started writing poems at ten years of age. He became an English writer, poet, translator, and historian. He became poet-laureate of England in 1813. Robert Southey, Samuel Coleridge, and William Wordsworth are often called “The Lake Poets,” because they lived together in the lake country of England for several years, and in their writings described the scenery in the region. Robert Southey passed on in 1843.
 
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“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.” -Thomas Sowell
 
“Private property, not democracy, is the great guarantor of prosperity and liberty. And because it decentralizes power, it safeguards us from madmen with utopian hallucinations.” -Thomas Sowell
 
Thomas Sowell was born on 30 June 1930. He is an American economist, social commentator, and writer.
 
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“If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.” -John L. Spalding
 
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.” -John L. Spalding
 
“What we love to do we find time to do.” -John L. Spalding
 
John Lancaster Spalding was born in 1840. He was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877 - 1908) and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. John Lancaster Spalding passed on in 1916.
 
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“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” -Herbert Spencer
 
“To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth.” -Herbert Spencer
 
Herbert Spencer was born on 27 April 1820 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. He was a polymath, working in the fields of biology, anthropology, a sociology, and philosophy. Mr. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He wrote on the subject of evolution even before Charles Darwin did so. Herbert Spencer passed on at 83 years of age on 8 December 1903 in Brighton, Sussex, England.
 
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“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.” -Baruch Spinoza
 
“Measure, time, and number are nothing but modes of thought, or rather, of imagination.” -Baruch Spinoza
 
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” -Baruch Spinoza: “Ethics,” Part 1
 
Baruch Spinoza, also known as Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa and Benedict Spinoza, was born as Benedito de Espinosa on 24 November 1632 in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. He became an optical lens grinder, an instrument maker, and a philosopher. Baruch Spinoza passed on at 44 years of age on 21 February 1677 in The Hague, Dutch Republic.
 
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“The loving person makes other people feel good and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong long-lasting friendships.” -Benjamin McLane Spock
 
Benjamin Spock was born in 1903. He was an American pediatrician and writer. Benjamin Spock passed on in 1998.
 
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“What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.” -Thomas Sprat
 
Thomas Sprat was born in 1636. Thomas Sprat passed on in 1713.
 
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“Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.” -Cecile Springer
 
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“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” -Charles Spurgeon
 
“Learn to say ‘no.’ It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
 
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, also known as C. H. Spurgeon, was born in 1834. He was an English Baptist Christian preacher. Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed on in 1892.
 
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“Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.” -Lincoln Steffens


“Somebody must take a chance. There were monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn’t are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.” -Lincoln Steffens
 
Lincoln Joseph Steffens was born on 6 April 1866 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a news reporter in New York City, launching a series of articles in “McClure’s” magazine, title ‘Tweed Days in St. Louis,’ which would later be published together in a book titled, “The Shame of the Cities” (1904). He is known for his investigations of corruption in municipal governments in American cities. Lincoln Joseph Steffens passed on at 70 years of age on 9 August 1936 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States of America.
 
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“Thou art the star for which all evening waits.” -George Sterling
 
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“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
 
Wallace Stevens was born in 1879. Wallace Stevens passed on in 1955.
 
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“A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.” -Adlai Stevenson
 
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don’t be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking, it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You’ll have more fun, you’ll do more and you’ll get more, you’ll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men.” -Adlai Stevenson
 
“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” -Adlai Stevenson
 
“The Human Race has improved everything except the Human Race.” -Adlai Stevenson
 
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born on 5 February 1900 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a politician, a diplomat, and the twenty-third Vice President of the United States of America. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II passed on at 65 years of age on 14 July 1965 in London, England.
 
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“Big doors swing on little hinges.” -W. Clement Stone
 
“Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.” -W. Clement Stone
 
“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.” -W. Clement Stone
 
William Clement Stone, also known as W. Clement Stone, was born in 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became the founder of the Combined Insurance Company and a self-help writer. William Clement Stone passed on in 2002.
 
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“Militant humanism grates on me much more than evangelism.” -Tom Stoppard
 
Tom Stoppard was born as Tomás Straussler on 3 July 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He is a British playwright and screenwriter.
 
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“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe: letter to her twin daughters
 
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America. She was a daughter of Lyman Beecher and a sister of Henry Ward Beecher. She was married to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. She became a novelist and a philanthropist. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels and travel memoirs, as well as collections of articles and letters. She is known for her novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe passed on at 85 years of age on 1 July 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode: “My Little Book of Prayer” (1905), page 11
 
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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” -Mary Stuart
 
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“When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly - as that a sentence must never end with a participle - and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think, I have only three rules of life: never do anything underhanded, never get your feet wet, go to bed at ten.” -William Stubbs

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“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” -Annie Sullivan
 
“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.” -Anne Sullivan
 
Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan was born on 14 April 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became known as a lifelong aid to Helen Adams Keller. Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ Sullivan passed on at 70 years of age on 20 October 1936 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States of America.
 
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“He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.” -William Graham Sumner
 
William Graham Sumner was born in 1840. He was an American social scientist who taught social sciences at Yale, where he held the nation’s first professorship in sociology. Mr. Sumner was a polymath who wrote numerous essays and books on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology. He coined the term the ‘forgotten man’ of the middle class. William Graham Sumner passed on in 1910.
 
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“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.” -Shunryu Suzuki
 
Shunryu Suzuki was born in 1904. Shunryu Suzuki passed on in 1971.
 
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“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” -Ben Sweetland
 
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“Discouraged people don’t need critics.” -Charles Swindoll
 
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“The proverb warns that, ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.” -Thomas Szasz
 
Thomas S. Szasz was born in 1920. He was an American psychiatrist. Thomas S. Szasz passed on in 2012.

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“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi
 
Albert Szent-Györgyi was born in 1893. He became a biochemist. Albert Szent-Györgyi passed on in 1986.
 
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10/6/2018

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“The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place for people to sit down.” -Alfred J. Talley
 
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“Our success or failure, peace or discontent, happiness or misery, depend on the choices we make each day.” -N. Eldon Tanner: ‘Thou Mayest Choose for Thyself,’ published in “Ensign” (July 1973) magazine, page 7
 
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“Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.” -Bayard Taylor
 
James Bayard Taylor was born on 11 January 1825 in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a poet, a literary critic, a translator, a travel writer, a novelist, and a diplomat. He is known for “Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems” (1844). James Bayard Taylor passed on at 53 years of age on 19 December 1878 in Germany.
 
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“Never give up, great things take time.” -Cabi Taylor
 
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“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.” -Henry Taylor
 
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“The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic’s terrible.” -Jeff Taylor
 
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“No trial is joyous for the present but grievous to be borne; but trials yield their blessings, when patiently endured.” -John Taylor: “Journal of Discourses,” Volume 6, page 166 and 167
 
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Life has loveliness to sell,
all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff,
soaring fire that sways and sings,
and children’s faces looking up,
holding wonder like a cup.
-Sara Teasdale
 
Sara Teasdale Filsinger was born as Sara Trevor Teasdale on 8 August 1884 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She became a lyrical poet. Sara Teasdale Filsinger passed on at 48 years of age on 29 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.” -William Temple
 
“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.” -William Temple: as attributed in John Timbs: “Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors” (1829), page 169
 
William Temple was born in 1881. He was an English theologian and archbishop. William Temple passed on in 1944.
 
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“Come my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” -Alfred Tennyson
 
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” -Alfred Tennyson
 
Alfred Tennyson, also known as Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. He was married to Emily Shellwood in 1850. With his brother, he wrote “Poems by Two Brothers” (1828). Alfred Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as England’s poet laureate in 1850 and held the post until his passing. Alfred Tennyson passed on at 83 years of age on 6 October 1892 in Lurgashall, Sussex, England.
 
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“Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.” -Terence
 
“Fortune favors the brave.” -Terence
 
“I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.” -Terence
 
“Moderation in all things.” -Terence: “The Lady of Andros”
 
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” -Terence
 
“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” -Terence
 
“You are a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to whatever needs it.” -Terence
 
Publius Terentius Afer, also known as Terence, was born in 185 B.C.E. He was a comic drama playwright of ancient Rome. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and impressed by his abilities, freed him. His comedies were performed for the first time sometime between about 170 B.C.E. and 160 B.C.E. Publius Terentius Afer passed on at about 26 years of age in 159 B.C.E.
 
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn’t matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” -Teresa of Calcutta
 
Teresa of Calcutta was born as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu on 26 August 1910 in Üksüb, a town in the Ottoman Empire’s province of Kosovo Vilayet (present day Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia). She became known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta when she undertook a religious mission to India, where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation serving the poor in 133 countries. Teresa of Calcutta passed on at 87 years of age on 5 September 1997 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
 
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“Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.” -Valentina Tereshkova
 
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“Where our joy is, there should our work be.” -Tertullian
 
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, also known simply as Tertullian, was born in about C.E. 155 in Carthage, Tunisia. He was an early Christian theologian, polemicist, moralist, and writer from Carthage in the ancient Roman province of Africa. Tertullian passed on in about C.E. 240 in Carthage, Tunisia.

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“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” -Nikola Tesla
 
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“Know thyself.” [English translation]
“Nosce te ipsum.” [original Latin]
-Thales
 
Thales was born in C.E. 640. Thales passed on in C.E. 546.
 
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“It’s never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.” -Nancy Thayer
 
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“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the Universe.” -Therese of Lisieux
 
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“Whoever loves much, does much.” -Thomas à Kempis: “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418), Book I, chapter xv
 
Thomas à Kempis, meaning Thomas of Kempen, was born in about 1379 in Kempen, Prince-Archbishopric of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire. He became a German Christian monk, theologian, scribe, and ascetical writer. He is known for his work, “The Imitation of Christ” (about 1418). Thomas à Kempis passed on at about 91 years of age on 25 July 1471 in Zwolle, Bishopric of Utrecht, Holy Roman Empire.
 
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“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” -Danny Thomas
 
Danny Thomas is a pseudonym of Amos Jacobs.
 
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“Why is it that wherever I go the resident idiot heads straight for me?” -Gwynn Thomas
 
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“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” -Lowell Thomas
 
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“With Paine’s “The Rights of Man,” “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the foundation documents of the working class movement.” -E. P. Thompson: “The Making of the English Working Class”
 
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“The only normal way to begin speaking in a new language is to begin speaking badly.” -Greg Thomson
 
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“If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.” -Brad Thor
 
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“Colors fade, temples crumble, but wise words endure.” -Edward Thorndike
 
Edward Thorndike was born in 1874. Edward Thorndike passed on in 1949.
 
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“I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.” -Thrasymachus
 
Thrasymachus lived in the 5th century B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece.

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“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” -Thucydides: “History of the Peloponnesian War”
 
Thucydides was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a historian of ancient Greece Thucydides passed on in about 395 B.C.E.
 
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“A pinch of probably is worth a pound of perhaps.” -James Thurber
 
“Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber
 
“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.” -James Thurber
 
James Grover Thurber was born in 1894. He was blind in one eye from a childhood accident. He became an American writer, humorist, and cartoonist, working for “The New Yorker” (1933 - 1961). James Grover Thurber passed on in 1961.
 
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“The first duty of love is to listen.” -Paul Tillich
 
Paul Johannes Tillich was born in 1886. He was a German-born American theologian. Paul Johannes Tillich passed on in 1965.
 
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“It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.” -Tiorio
 
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“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” -Eckhart Tolle
 
“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.” -Eckhart Tolle
 
Eckhart Tolle was born as Ulrich Leonard Tölle in Lünen, Dortmund, Germany on 16 February 1948. He is a Canadian writer and professional speaker.
 
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“Some people choose their ideas the way they choose their clothes - according to the latest fashion.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
“The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
“The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.” -Leo Tolstoy: “Help for the Starving, Part II” (1892)
 
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, also known as Leo Tolstoy, was born on 9 September 1828. He was a Russian novelist. He is known as the author of “War and Peace” (1869). Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, also known as Leo Tolstoy, passed on at 82 years of age on 20 November 1910.

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“A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?” -Lily Tomlin
 
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
 
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” -Lily Tomlin
 
“The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.” -Lily Tomlin
 
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” -Lily Tomlin
 
Lily Tomlin is a pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin, who was born in 1939. She is an American actress and comedian, some of whose material was written for her by Jane Wagner.
 
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“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” -H. M. Tomlinson
 
Henry M. Tomlinson was born in 1873. He was an English novelist and journalist. Henry M. Tomlinson passed on in 1958.
 
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“This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.” -Paul Tournier
 
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“You must love and think about your work if you are to make a success of it and make it pay.” -Elizabeth Towne

Elizabeth Towne was born in 1860. She was the founder and editor of the New Thought movement “Nautilus Magazine,” in which she published many articles by Wallace Wattles. She became a new thought writer and a publisher. Elizabeth Towne passed on in 1965.
 
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“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.” -Arnold Toynbee
 
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“Be positive, pleasant, patient, and easygoing - no matter how busy you really are.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
 
“Concentrate on one thing, the most important thing, and stay with it until it’s complete.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement - you are your most precious resource.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Do as much research on the client as you can prior to your first meeting. This is very impressive.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent fashion.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you’ll be successful too.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Love is by far the most important thing of all.” -Brian Tracy

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” -Brian Tracy
 
“One of the great keys to success is to use proven success methods. Learn from the experts; don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Life is too short for that.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’” -Brian Tracy
 
“The most successful people in our society think the furthest into the future. They are willing to make sacrifices in the short-term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long-term.” -Brian Tracy

“Those who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do.” -Brian Tracy
 
“To accumulate wealth, you must study and emulate those who have acquired it before you.” -Brian Tracy
 
“To get more time with your family, limit and restrict television, newspapers, and outside activities.” -Brian Tracy
 
“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” -Brian Tracy
 
“You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have, and everything you become.” -Brian Tracy
 
“You can develop any quality that you desire to achieve, any goal that you set for yourself.” -Brian Tracy
 
Brian Tracy was born on 5 January 1944 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is an American self-help writer, motivational speaker, and businessman. He serves as the chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in Solana Beach, California, with affiliates throughout the United States and thirty-one other nations.
 
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“Trust to hard work, perseverance, and determination. The best motto for a long march is: ‘Don’t grumble. Plug on!’” -Thomas Treves
 
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“If you’re not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.” -Joe Tye
 
Joe Tye is a motivational speaker and a coach.
 
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“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” -Frank Tyger
 
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” -Frank Tyger
 
“Goodwill cannot be purchased, it must be earned.” -Frank Tyger
 
“Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.” -Frank Tyger
 
“Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than two sides.” -Frank Tyger
 
“Success is often just an idea away.” -Frank Tyger

“When you like your work, every day is a holiday.” -Frank Tyger
 
Frank Tyger was born in 1929. Frank Tyger passed on in 2011.
 
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