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Quotations by Authors ‘Aa’ Through ‘Az’

1/31/2017

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“Whoever loves much, does much.” -Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471): “The Imitation of Christ” (about 1420), Book 1, chapter 15
 
Thomas à Kempis was born in about 1380 in the Holy Roman Empire. He was a German Christian priest and a scribe. He is known for his work “The Imitation of Christ” (about 1420). Thomas à Kempis passed on at about 91 years of age on 25 July 1471 in the Holy Roman Empire.
 
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“A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.” -Karl Abraham 
 
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“Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgements are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.” -John Dalberg Acton
 
“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.” -John Dalberg Acton
 
John Dalberg Acton, also known as John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, was born on 10 January 1834 in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. He was an English Roman Catholic historian and a writer. John Dalberg Acton passed on at 68 years of age on 19 June 1902 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, German Empire.
 
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“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 was a newspaper columnist and the founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service, which syndicated comic strips and columns to newspapers for five decades. His own writings were circulated widely in “The Gettysburg Times” and in many other newspapers. George Matthew Adams passed away on 29 October 1962.
 
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“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” -John Addison
 
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“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.” -Aeschylus
 
Aeschylus was born in about 523 B.C.E. in Eleusis, Greece. He was a poet and a tragic dramatist. Among other plays, he wrote “Persians” (472 B.C.E.), “The Suppliants” (463 B.C.E.), “Seven Against Thebes” (467 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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“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 was 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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“A man can do all things if he but wills them.” -Leon Battista Alberti
 
Leon Battista Alberti was born on 18 February 1404. He was an Italian writer, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, and a general Renaissance polymath. Leon Battista Alberti passed on at 68 years of age on 20 April 1472.
 
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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
 
“‘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 was a writer known for her novel “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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“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.” -Charles L. Allen
 
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“Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.” -George Allen
 
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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 was a writer 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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“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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“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 test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.” -Henri Frederic 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 was a Swiss moral philosopher, writer, poet, and critic. He is known for his book, “Journal Intime” (“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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“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
 
“Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.” -Walter Anderson: “The Confidence Course” (1997)
 
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
 
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“There is little good in filling churches with people who go out exactly the same as they came in; the call of the Church is not to fill churches but to fill Heaven.” -Father Andrew: “The Way of Victory”
 
Henry Ernest Hardy, also known as Father Andrew, was born on 7 January 1869 in Kasauli, India. He was an Anglican clergyman, a friar, a painter, and a poet. He is known as a co-founder of the Society of Divine Compassion, which worked for the poor in the East End of London, England. Henry Ernest Hardy passed on at 77 years of age on 31 March 1946 in the East End of London, England.
 
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“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -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 was a poet, memoirist, dancer, producer, playwright, director, teacher, essayist, singer, and 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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“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 was 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. He was a Greek philosopher. Antisthenes passed on in about 365 B.C.E.
 
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“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” -Thomas Aquinas
 
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.” -Thomas Aquinas
 
Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy. He was a Roman Catholic Christian priest and friar, a philosopher, and a theologian. Thomas Aquinas passed on in 1274.
 
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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. He was an English Victorian poet, and a literary and social critic. Matthew Arnold passed on at 65 years of age on 15 April 1888.
 
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“First, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.” -Thomas Arnold (1795 - 1842)
 
Thomas Arnold was born in 1795. He was appointed headmaster of Rugby in 1828. Thomas Arnold passed on in 1842.
 
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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 was an American 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
 
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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 “Ensign” (November 1984) magazine, page 22
 
“The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
“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 (1852 - 1928)
 
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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“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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“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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“God chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe.” -Augustine of Hippo
 
“Hear the other side.” [English translation]
“Audi partem alterum.” [original Latin]
-Augustine of Hippo
 
“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.” -Augustine of Hippo
 
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 was 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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“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.” -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
 
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” -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
 
“To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness . . .” -Marcus Aurelius: “Meditations”
 
“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 arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -Marcus Aurelius
 
Marcus Aurelius, also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, was born as M. Annius Verus on C.E. 26 April 121. He was an emperor (C.E. 161 - C.E. 180) of ancient Rome, 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 was an English novelist. Jane Austen passed on in 1817.
 
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“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” -Emory Austin
 
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“I have two planks for a bed, two stools, two cups and a basin. On my broken wall is a small card which says, ‘God hath chosen the weak things - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’ It is true I have passed through fire.” -Gladys Aylward: as quoted in Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild, compilers: “The Lion Christian Quotation Collection” (1997)
 
Gladys Aylward was born in 1902. Gladys Aylward passed on in 1970.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ba’ Through ‘Bz’

1/30/2017

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“Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God, and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.” -Maltbie D. Babcock
 
“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 was a preacher and 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 more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” -Richard Bach
 
Richard David Bach was born on 23 June 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America. He is a writer who is known for “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” (1970), “Illusions” (1977), “One” (1989), and other books.

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“A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.” -Robert Baden-Powell
 
“Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.” -Robert Baden-Powell
 
Robert Baden-Powell (rŏbꞋərt bādꞋn-pōꞋəl), also known as First Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell, and originally known as Robert Stephenson Smyth (rŏbꞋərt stēꞋvən-sən smĭth), was born in 1857. He became a lieutenant general in the British Army. He is known as the founder of the Boy Scouts (1908), which followed an initial trial camp on Brownsea Island (1907). He and his sister Agnes (ăgꞋnĭs) (1858 - 1945) founded the Girl Guides (1910). He is the author of the book “Paddle Your Own Canoe” (1939). Robert Baden-Powell passed on in 1941.

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“Isn’t it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thick-headed?” -Frank Baer
 
“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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“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.” -Joan Baez
 
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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 was an English poet, and is known as the author of “Festus.” Philip James Bailey passed on in 1902.
 
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“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.” -Russell Baker
 
Russell Baker was born in 1925. He is an American journalist and columnist.
 
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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
 
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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“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” -Bernard M. Baruch
 
Bernard M. Baruch was born in 1870. He was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. He immersed himself in learning the brokerage business and became a millionaire by the time he was thirty. He was a confidante to six presidents and advised Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt on economic matters in wartime. Bernard M. Baruch passed on in 1965.
 
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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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“Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.” -Lawrence D. Bell
 
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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
 
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“It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.” -Sarah Bernhardt
 
“We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often, and never forget.” -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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“Hear much; speak little.” -Bias of Priene
 
“The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.” -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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“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.” -Bonnie Blair
 
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“It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; that man may be made better - that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists.” -Hugh Blair
 
Hugh Blair was born in 1718. He was a Scottish religious minister, writer, and rhetorician. He is known for “Sermons,” a five-volume endorsement of practical Christian morality, and “Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres,” a prescriptive guide on composition. Hugh Blair passed on in 1800.
 
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
-William Blake: “Gnomic Verses”
 
William Blake was born in 1757 in London, England. He was apprenticed (1772 - 1779) to the engraver James Basire. In 1782, he married Catherine Boucher, and together they wrote, illustrated, printed, and bound their own books. Their first collection of poems, “Poetical Sketches,” was printed in about 1783, followed by books including, “William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books,” “The Poems of William Blake,” and “The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake,” “Songs of Innocence” (1789), and “Songs of Experience” (1794). William Blake passed on in 1827 in London, England.

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“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.” -William J. H. Boetcker: as quoted in “Forbes” (1948) magazine
 
“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.” -William J. H. Boetcker
 
William John Henry Boetcker was born on 17 July 1873 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany. At 18 years of age, he emigrated to the United States of America, and in Brooklyn, New York, he became an ordained Presbyterian minister. He was an influential public speaker and a writer. William John Henry Boetcker passed on at 88 years of age on 12 March 1962 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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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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“All that is necessary to break the spell of frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” -Dorthea Brande
 
Dorothea Brande was born in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. She was a writer and an editor. She was an associate editor of the “American Review.” She is known for her books “Becoming a Writer” (1934) and “Wake up and Live” (1936). Dorothea Brande passed on in 1948 in New Hampshire, United States of America.
 
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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 was a lawyer and an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Louis Dembitz Brandeis passed on in 1941.
 
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“You have no idea of the countless lives you touch in the course of your lifetime.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
 
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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 was 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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“One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. ‘Away with you,’ I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.” -Leonid Brezhnev (1906 - 1982)
 
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on 19 December 1906. He was a Soviet politician. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev passed on at 75 years of age on 10 November 1982.
 
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“Be such a person, and live such a life, that if everyone were such as you, and every life such as yours, this Earth would be God’s paradise.” -Phillips Brooks
 
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 for being 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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“God has nowhere in the Scripture required any worthiness in the creature before believing in Christ.” -Thomas Brooks
 
“The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.” -Thomas Brooks
 
“The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.” -Thomas Brooks
 
Thomas Benton Brooks was born in 1608. Thomas Benton Brooks passed on in 1680.
 
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“In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.” -Joyce Brothers
 
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload, and remembering to carry out the trash.” -Joyce Brothers
 
Joyce Diane Brothers was born on 20 October 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She was a psychologist, an advice columnist, and a television and radio personality. Joyce Diane Brothers passed on at 85 years of age on 13 May 2013 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States of America.
 
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“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior
 
H. Jackson Brown, Junior was born in 1940. He is an American writer.
 
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“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” -Les Brown
 
“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” -Les Brown
 
“Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” -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. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.” -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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“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806. 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 an English poet. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth Barrett Browning passed on in 1861.

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“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” -Robert Browning
 
“And gain is gain, however small.” -Robert Browning
 
“My Sun sets to rise again.” -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. He was an American lawyer, orator, lecturer, and politician. He was a member of the Presbyterian denomination of Christianity. William Jennings Bryan passed away on 26 July 1925.
 
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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
 
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -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
 
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was born on 26 June 1892. She was an American writer known for her novels of 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.” Pearl Sydenstricker Buck passed on at 80 years of age on 6 March 1973.

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“Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” -James Buckham (1858 - 1908): as quoted in Mary Allette Ayer, editor: “Keep up Your Courage: Key-Notes to Success” (1908)
 
James Buckham, also known by the pen name Paul Pastnor, was born on 25 November 1858 in Burlington, Vermont, United States of America. He was a newspaper journalist, a periodical editor, an essayist, a poet, a speculative fiction writer, and a naturalist. He became known for his books of poetry: “The Heart of Life” (1897) and “A Wayside Altar” (1905), and for his books of essays: “Where Town and Country Meet” (1903), “Afield with the Seasons” (1907), and “The Heritage of Life” (1907). James Buckham passed on at 49 years of age on 8 January 1908 in Melrose, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.” -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
 
“We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.” -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
 
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born in 1803. He was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He is known for inventing the opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night.” Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton passed on in 1873.
 
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“Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.” -Edmund Burke: “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” page 344
 
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.” -Edmund Burke
 
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.” -Edmund Burke: “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” page 453
 
“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
 
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke
 
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” -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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“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 was a novelist and playwright, 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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“A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.” -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’
 
John Burroughs was born on 3 April 1837. He was an American naturalist and writer. John Burroughs passed on at 83 years of age on 29 March 1921.
 
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“As long as you are useful, you’ll never be old.” -Leo Buscaglia
 
“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.” -Leo 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 was a 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
 
“Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground; but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.” -
Samuel Butler
 
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” -Samuel Butler
 
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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1/29/2017

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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 a 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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“At the threshold of every transition in our lives, the devil sends a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!” -Christine Caine
 
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“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” -John Calvin
 
“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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“When you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” -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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“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
 
“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 was 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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“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” -Jack Canfield
 
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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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“Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” -Richard Carlson: “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” (16 January 1997)
 
“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 was a psychotherapist, a writer, and 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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“As a symbol of their covenant with God and each other, the Scottish Covenanters began wearing a red collar around their neck. Noting the symbolism, the English began to derisively refer to these religious dissenters as “Rednecks.” Thus, the origin of the term was born in Christian reformation and resistance to religious and political coercion. Due to their religious and political oppression, and eventual defeat, many of Scotland’s Covenanters fled their homeland and came to settle the American South. So it is that the South became the historic home for the Scottish “Rednecks,” who sought to live according to the true teachings of the Bible.” -Wayne Carlson: “In Praise of Redneckism” (19 February 2002)
 
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“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.” -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 three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the
Protestant Religion.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795. He married Jane Welsh in 1826. He became a Scottish teacher, historian, essayist, social commentator, satirical writer, and political philosopher. Thomas Carlyle passed on in 1881.

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“The thorough man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment to ends.” -Andrew Carnegie
 
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835. He was an American businessman and philanthropist of Scottish birth. Andrew Carnegie passed on in 1919.
 
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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” -Rachel Carson
 
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the Earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.” -Rachel Carson
 
Rachel Louise Carson was born on 27 May 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an American marine biologist and a writer. She is known for her books “The Sea Around Us” (1951), “The Edge of the Sea” (1955), and “Silent Spring” (1962). Rachel Louise Carson passed on at 56 years of age on 14 April 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.
 
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“If you improve 1 percent a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You’re 100 percent better.” -Coach Carter
 
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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
 
Willa Sibert Cather was born as Wilella Sibert Cather on 7 December 1873 in Gore, Virginia, United States of America. She was a writer who 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 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 was the Empress of Russia, and became 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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“Christians neutralized into inactivity will be spectators of their country’s free fall to collapse.” -John W. Chalfant: “Abandonment Theology” (1996)
 
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“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is my symphony.” -William Ellery Channing
 
William Ellery Channing was born in 1780. He was an American Unitarian preacher, theologian, and writer. William Ellery Channing passed on in 1842.
 
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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 was a physician (medical doctor), 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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“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.” -Lydia M. Child
 
“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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“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 was 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
 
Ramsey Clark was born in 1927. He is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General.
 
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“I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.” -Jacqueline Cochran
 
Jacqueline Cochran was born as Bessie Lee Pittman in 1906. Jacqueline Cochran passed on in 1980.
 
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“And, when you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” -Paulo Coelho: “The Alchemist” (1988)
 
“If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination.” -Paulo Coelho

“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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“The devil is always suggesting that we compromise our high calling by substituting the good in place of the best.” -William Sloane Coffin, Junior: “Credo” (2004), ‘Life In General’
 
“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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“If man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Table Talk” (30 August 1833)
 
“Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772. He married Sara Fricker in 1794. He became an English literary critic, philosopher, poet, and theologian. He is known for the poems “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan,” as well as the prose work “Biographia Literaria” (1817). Mr. Coleridge was a member of the Lake Poets. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passed on at 61 years of age on 25 July 1834.
 
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“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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“It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.” -Robert Collier
 
“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 was a motivational speaker and a writer. Robert Collier passed on in 1950.
 
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“Life is not life unless you make mistakes.” -Joan Collins
 
Joan Collins was born in 1933. She is a British-born American actress.
 
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“Success doesn’t come to you . . . you go to it.” -Marva Collins
 
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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
 
“It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.” -C. C. Colton: “Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words” (1820), CXLII
 
“Let any of those who renounce Christianity write fairly down in a book all the absurdities they believe instead of it, and they will find it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.” -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
 
“The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.” -C. C. Colton
 
“Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he who has much and wants more.” -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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“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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“To congratulate oneself on one’s warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more, is a profound moral fault.” -Robert Conquest: “Reflections on a Ravaged Century” (1999)
 
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“If you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are.” -Russell Conwell
 
“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
 
“No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.” -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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“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 was a writer, a professional speaker, and a 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. 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.” 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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“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” -E. Joseph Crossman (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
 
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“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” -E. E. Cummings


“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” -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 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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“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, 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’

1/28/2017

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To dream the impossible dream,
To reach the unreachable star!
-Joe Darion, lyricist and Mitch Leigh, musical compositionist: “The Impossible Dream”; type of work: song within the musical “Man of La Mancha” (1965)
 
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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 an English naturalist, geologist, and proponent of the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin passed on in 1882.
 
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“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.” -Bette Davis
 
Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis was born on 5 April 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America. She was an American 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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“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 relationship expert, 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 was 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 was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Point and 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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“Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales”
 
“True elegance consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.” -François de La Rochefaucauld
 
“We are never as happy or as unhappy as we suppose.” -François de La Rochefoucauld: “Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes” (1664) ‘Morales Maximes,’ number 49
 
“We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” -François de La Rochefoucauld
 
François de La Rochefoucauld, also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, was born in 1613. He was a French soldier and writer. François de La Rochefoucauld, also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, passed on in 1680.
 
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“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” -Agnes de Mille
 
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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. de Mille (1881 - 1959)
 
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“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work out some of those contradictions for myself.” -Michel de Montaigne
 
“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” (“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-Exupery
 
“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 was 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 was 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 was a French writer. Germaine de Staël passed on at 51 years of age on 14 July 1817 in Paris, France.
 
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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 Greek philosopher. Democritus of Abdera passed on in about 370 B.C.E.
 
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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)
 
“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 not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” -Benjamin Disraeli
 
Benjamin Disraeli was born in 1804. He was a British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874 - 1880), statesman, and novelist. Benjamin Disraeli passed on in 1881.
 
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“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 was 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.
 
“Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.” -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 (about 1571 - 1631): “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (1624), ‘Meditation XVII’
 
Donne, John. John Donne (jŏn dŭn) was born in about June 1572 in England. He was a Catholic priest who later converted to the Anglican faith. He was a soldier, a church cleric, a courtier, a dean of Saint Paul’s, a poet, and a satirist. He was the author of “Divine Poems” (1607). He was the most outstanding of the English metaphysical poets and a spellbinding preacher in the Anglican Church. His poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects, including hymns and sonnets reflecting his own spiritual struggles, such as “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 Dostoyevsky
 
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born on 11 November 1821 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He was a novelist, a short story writer, a journalist, and a publisher and editor of magazines. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky passed on at 59 years of age on 9 February 1881.
 
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“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.” -Norman Douglas
 
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” -Norman Douglas: “South Wind” (1917), chapter 6
 
Norman Douglas was born in 1868. He was an Austrian-born British novelist and essayist. Norman Douglas passed on in 1952.
 
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“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
 
Frederick Douglass is a pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who was born in 1817 in the United States of America. He was a social reformer, a professional speaker, and a writer. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey passed on in 1895.
 
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“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” -Hugh Downs: as quoted in Roy B. Zuck: “The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations” (1997), page 185
 
Hugh Malcolm Downs was born on 14 February 1921 in Akron, Ohio, United States of America. He is a news show anchor, producer, writer, and music composer. He was a co-host of the NBC News program “Today” from 1962 to 1971 and host of the “Concentration” game show from 1958 to 1969.
 
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“Contentment is the greatest wealth.” -Thomas Draxe
 
Thomas Draxe was born on an unknown date. He was an English 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 was an American management consultant, educator, and writer. Peter Ferdinand Drucker passed on at 85 years of age on 11 November 2005.
 
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“There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.” -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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“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 an English poet, dramatist (playwright), 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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“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, best remembered 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: “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 was an American dancer in Europe who 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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“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 was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, who 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 C. Durant. 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
 
“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
 
“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 was an American historian and writer, and co-author of 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

“The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” -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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“Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.” -John Dykes
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ea’ Through ‘Ez’

1/27/2017

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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 was a historian and a writer. Alice Morse Earle passed on in 1911.
 
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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
 
Abba Eban was born as Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban on 2 February 1915 in Cape Town, Union of South Africa. He was 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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“I think . . . I think it’s in my basement . . . Let me go upstairs and check.” -M. C. Echer
 
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“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” -Meister Eckhart
 
Eckhart von Hochheim, also known as Meister Eckhart, was born in about C.E. 1260 near Gotha, Landgraviate of Thuringia (now a part of Germany), Holy Roman Empire. He was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic. ‘Meister’ is German for ‘master,’ in reference to the academic title ‘Magister in Theologia’ he obtained in Paris. He is sometimes called by the name Johannes Eckhart, possibly erroneously. Eckhart von Hochheim passed on in about C.E. 1328 possibly in Avignon.
 
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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 in 1882. He was an English astrophysicist. 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 in 1944.
 
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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 was 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
 
Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children’s Defense Fund.
 
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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 Eiseley was born on 3 September 1907 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America. He was an anthropologist, a teacher, a philosopher, and a writer. Loren Eiseley passed on at 69 years of age on 9 July 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“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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“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Felix Holt, the Radical” (1866)
 
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love . . .” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), Book I, chapter x
 
“It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crop.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
 
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” -George Eliot
 
“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)):  “Scenes of Clerical Life” (1858), ‘Janet’s Repentance, Chapter 10
 
“The darkest night that ever fell upon the Earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): as quoted in S. Pollock Linn: “Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen, and Poets” (1881)
 
“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 (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 563
 
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” -George Eliot
 
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” -George Eliot
 
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
 
“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 (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
 
George Eliot is a pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, who was born on 22 November 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was a novelist and a poet. She is known for her novel “Middlemarch” (1871 - 1872) among others. 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
 
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 was 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). He received wide recognition after publication of “The Wasteland” (1922). He wrote “The Four Quartets” (1936 - 1942), which were issued as a book in 1943, considered his masterpiece. 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 was a queen of England and Ireland (1558 - 1603). Elizabeth I passed on in 1603.
 
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“There are two kinds of worries -those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.” -Duke Ellington
 
Duke Ellington was born in 1899. He was a musician and a composer. Duke Ellington passed on in 1974.
 
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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 ‘Havelock’ Ellis was born on 2 February 1859 in Croydon, Surrey, England. He was an English essayist and psychologist. Henry Havelock ‘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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“They hate whom they fear.” -Quintus Ennius: “Thyestes”
 
Quintus Ennius was born in 239 B.C.E. He was a Roman poet, translator, and 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 was a philosopher of ancient Greece. He is the founder of 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 was a Dutch Catholic priest, theologian, and 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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“Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith.” -Ralph Erskine
 
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“Every farmer knows that you can’t sow and reap on the same day. There is a timetable for your harvest that requires both working and waiting. Patience is a small price to pay for what you will receive.” -Neil Eskelin
 
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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 was a Greek mathematician. Euclid passed on in 265 B.C.E.
 
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“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
 
Euripides was born in about 480 B.C.E. in Salamis. He was a tragedian (playwright) 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 Evans was born on 19 September 1904. He was an American lexicographer, teacher of English, and television show host. Bergen Evans passed on at 73 years of age on 4 February 1978.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Fa’ Through ‘Fz’

1/26/2017

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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 the 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
 
“The past is never dead, it is not even past.” -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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“If you’re naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don’t like.” -William Feather
 
“Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got.” -William Feather: as attributed in “Forbes” (1984)
 
William A. Feather was born on 25 August 1889. He was an American publisher and writer who lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where he published “The William Feather Magazine.” William A. 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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“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
 
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“The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God’s good time.” -John Ferguson: “The Enthronement of Love”
 
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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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“Things to remember: 1. The worth of character, 2. The improvement of talent, 3. The influence of example, 4. The joy of origination, 5. The dignity of simplicity, 6. The success of perseverance.” -Marshall Field
 
Marshall Field was born in 1834. He was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. His business was renowned for its then-exceptional level of quality and customer service. Field is also known for some of his philanthropic donations, providing funding for the Field Museum of Natural History and donating land for the campus of the University of Chicago. Marshall Field passed on in 1906.
 
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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 an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess, and as the author 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.” -Debbi Fields
 
Debbie Fields is the founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
 
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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
 
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“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” -Dorothy Canfield Fisher
 
Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in 1879. She was an American educational reformer and social activist. Dorothy Canfield Fisher passed on in 1958.
 
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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
 
“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 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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“By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware.” -John Flavel
 
John Flavel was born in 1627. He was an English Presbyterian clergyman. John Flavel passed on in 1691.
 
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“The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.” -Peggy Fleming
 
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“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 was a Scottish-born 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 Forbes
 
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was born on 19 August 1919. He was the publisher of “Forbes” magazine, which was founded by his father, B. C. Forbes. Today, the magazine is run by his 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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“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
 
“Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.” -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
 
“No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick: “Living Under Tension”
 
“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.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
 
Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on 24 May 1878 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America. He was a Protestant Christian minister in the Baptist Church 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 was 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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“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.” -Anatole France
 
“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
 
“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.” -Anatole France
 
“If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” -Anatole France
 
“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 more you say, the less people will remember.” -Anatole France
 
Anatole France is a pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault, who was born in 1844 in Paris, France. He was 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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“Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.” -Viktor Frankl
 
“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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“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” -Milton Friedman
 
“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.” -Milton Friedman
 
“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)
 
“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.” -Milton Friedman: “Essays in Positive Economics” (1953)
 
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 was 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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“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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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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“On the day of reckoning I doubt we will be judged by what certificates we have on the wall, but rather what scars incurred in battle for humanity.” -T. C. 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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“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” -Thomas Fuller
 
“He that knows least commonly presumes most.” -Thomas Fuller
 
“He that knows nothing will believe anything.” -Thomas Fuller
 
“He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.” -Thomas Fuller
 
Thomas Fuller was born in 1608 in Northamptonshire, England. He was a preacher, a historian, and a writer. Thomas Fuller passed on at about 53 years of age on 16 August 1661.
 
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“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
 
“If Afflictions refine some, they consume others.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2666
 
“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 was 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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“But the thing I’ve really never understood about atheists is why try to find fault with a religion based mainly on treating others the way you’d like to be treated?” -Benjamin Furleigh: as quoted in the “Mason City Globe Gazette” (13 January 1997)
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ga’ Through ‘Gz’

1/25/2017

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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
 
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“Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.” -Frank L. Gaines
 
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“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” -Gloria Gaither
 
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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
 
Galen was born in C.E. 129. He was a Greek physician, anatomist, and writer on medicine and philosophy. Galen passed on in C.E. 199.
 
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
 
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“We cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.” -Epeli Ganilau
 
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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 was a novelist, journalist, and 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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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John Gardner
 
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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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“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“I buy when other people are selling.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.” -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 was 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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“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” -Edward Gibbon
 
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.” -Edward Gibbon
 
“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” -Edward Gibbon
 
Edward Gibbon was born on 8 May 1737. He was an English historian and writer. Edward Gibbon passed on at 56 years of age on 16 January 1794.
 
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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 in 1834. He was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886. James Gibbons passed on in 1921.
 
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“My soul preached to me and said, ‘Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.’” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
 
“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
 
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.” -Khalil Gibran
 
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883. He was 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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“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” -André Gide
 
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” -André Gide: “Le traite du Narcisse” (1891)
 
“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
 
“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached at an angle.” -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: “Fruits of the Earth”
 
“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.” -André Gide
 
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.” -André Gide
 
“Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.” -André Gide
 
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He was 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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“It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.” -Patrice Gifford
 
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“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
 
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He was an English dramatist, librettist, writer of comic and satirical poetry, and illustrator best 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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“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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“Only the mediocre are always at their best.” -Jean Giraudoux: as quoted in Victoria Principal: “The Beauty Principal” (1984), page 117
 
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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
 
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
 
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809. He was a British 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.
 
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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 Glasgow was born in 1873. She was an American novelist. Ellen Glasgow passed on in 1945.
 
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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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“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
 
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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 in 1756. He was an English social philosopher and political journalist. William Godwin passed on in 1836.
 
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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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“I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God’s expression through me.” -Joel S. Goldsmith
 
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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)
 
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith (similar quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mary Pickford and Confucius)
 
Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was an Anglo-Irish physician, poet, novelist, and dramatist (playwright). He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768) and “She Stoops to Conquer” (1771). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.
 
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“If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.” -Jane Goodall
 
Jane Goodall was born in 1934. She is an English primatologist who studied the social life and family life of chimpanzees for forty years.
 
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“Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.” -Samuel Griswold Goodrich
 
Samuel Griswold Goodrich was born in 1793. He was an American publisher and writer of children’s books under the pseudonym Peter Parley. Samuel Griswold Goodrich passed on in 1860.
 
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“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.” -Billy Graham
 
“If I didn’t have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I’m an optimist. I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.” -Billy Graham
 
William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior was born on 7 November 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America. He is an American Christian evangelist. Website: www.billygraham.org.
 
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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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“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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“Don’t try to change people’s minds. People will change their own minds. Instead, design an experience that leads to a new way of thinking.” -Dave Gray
 
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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” -Linda Grayson
 
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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 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.” -Alfred Whitney Griswold
 
“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.” -Alfred Whitney Griswold
 
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“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. 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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“It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but, for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster.” -William Gurnall
 
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“Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.” -Johannes Gutenberg
 
Johannes Gutenberg, also known as Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, was born in about 1398. He was a German metalsmith and the inventor of the movable-type printing press. Johannes Gutenberg passed on at 70 years of age on 3 February 1468.
 
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
 
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1/24/2017

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“Surround yourself with people who have ambitious plans, meaningful purposes, and big goals.” -Jeff Haden
 
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“It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.” -Arthur Hadley
 
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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 was 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 in 1574. He was an English bishop, moral philosopher, and satirist. Joseph Hall passed on in 1656.
 
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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 was 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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“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 was an editor of “The Wall Street Journal” newspaper. William Peter Hamilton passed on in 1929.
 
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“No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his ‘philosophy of life’ until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates, and his enemies.” -Sydney J. Harris
 
“Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” -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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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” -Stephen Hawking
 
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the Universe.” -Stephen Hawking
 
Stephen William Hawking was born in 1942. He is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, writer, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, and is a supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Stephen William Hawking passed on at 76 years of age on 13 March 2018.
 
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“It is the individual who knows how little he knows about himself who stands a reasonable chance of finding out something about himself.” -S. I. Hayakawa
 
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, also known as S. I. Hayakawa, was born in 1906 in Canada. He became an American professor of English, a president of San Francisco State University, and a United States Senator (1977 - 1983) representing the state of California. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa passed on in 1992.
 
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“I like people who see life not as a burden to be borne, but as an adventure to be faced with gaiety and spirit. God gave us the grace of laughter, why should we use it?” -Susan Hayward
 
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“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.” -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 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 was a publisher. William Randolph Hearst passed on in 1951.
 
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“Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. They have slapped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.” -Ben Hecht: “A Child of the Century” (1954)
 
Ben Hecht was born in 1893. He was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Ben Hecht passed on in 1964.
 
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“It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.” -Arthur Helps
 
Arthur Helps was born in 1813 in Streatham, South London, England. He was an English writer and a clerk of the Privy Council. Arthur Helps passed on in 1875.
 
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
“Never mistake motion for action.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America. He was 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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“All this, and Heaven too!” -Philip Henry: as quoted in Matthew Henry: “Life of Philip Henry” (1839)
 
Philip Henry was born in 1631. Philip Henry passed on in 1696.
 
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“Good things aren’t supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.” -Audrey Hepburn
 
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” -Audrey Hepburn
 
Audrey Hepburn was born on 4 May 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She was a British actress, dancer, and model. Audrey Hepburn passed on at 63 years of age on 20 January 1993 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
 
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“The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself.” -Heraclitus
 
“You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing onto you.” -Heraclitus: “On the Universe”
 
Heraclitus of Ephesus was born in 544 B.C.E. in Ephesus, Ionia, Persian Empire. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. Heraclitus of Ephesus passed on in 483 B.C.E.
 
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“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” -George Herbert
 
George Herbert was born on 3 April 1593 at Montgomery Castle in Wales. He was 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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“We live in a world we ourselves create.” -Johann Gottfried Herder
 
Johann Gottfried Herder, known after 1802 as Johann Gottfried von Herder, was born on 25 August 1744 in Mohrungen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Morąg, Poland). He was a philosopher, a theologian, a poet, and a literary critic. Johann Gottfried von Herder passed on at 59 years of age on 18 December 1803 in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar.
 
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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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“There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel
 
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“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.” -Hermann Hesse
 
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” -Hermann Hesse
 
Hermann Hesse was born in 1877. He was a German poet, novelist, and painter. His is known for “Steppenwolf,” “Siddhartha,” and “The Glass Bead Game.” Hermann Hesse passed on in 1962.
 
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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 (1914 - 2002)
 
Thor Heyerdahl was born in 6 October 1914 in Larvik, Norway. He was an archeologist, an ethnologist, and an adventurer who organized and led 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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“Behind almost every great man there stands either a good parent or a good teacher.” -Gilbert Highet
 
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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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“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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“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.” -Conrad Hilton
 
Conrad Hilton was born in 1887. He was a hotelier and the founder of Hilton Hotels. Conrad Hilton passed on in 1979.
 
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“I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good. The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.” -Gordon B. Hinckley
 
“You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord; then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.” -Gordon B. Hinckley
 
Gordon Bitner Hinckley was born on 23 June 1910. He was 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 condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” -Thomas Hobbes
 
Thomas Hobbes was born in 1588. He was an English philosopher. Thomas Hobbes passed on in 1679.
 
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“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” -Ralph Hodgson
 
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“It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.” -Eric Hoffer
 
“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.” -Eric Hoffer
 
“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” -Eric Hoffer
 
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” -Eric Hoffer
 
Eric Hoffer was born in 1902. He was an American longshoreman turned moral and social philosopher and writer. He was the author of ten books among which was his first book, “The True Believer” (1951). Eric Hoffer passed on in 1983.
 
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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 was born on 24 July 1819 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, United States of America. He was a doctor, a novelist, a poet. He was a founder and an editor of “Scribner’s Monthly” magazine, which he and Roswell Smith co-founded in 1870. He wrote the lyrics to the Methodist hymn “There’s a Song in the Air.” He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. 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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“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.” -Ernest Holmes
 
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” -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 was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, a part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as “The Science of Mind.” 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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“I can’t believe that God put us on this Earth to be ordinary.” -Lou Holtz
 
Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz was born on 6 January 1937 in Follansbee, West Virginia, United States of America. He is a football player, a coach, a writer, and a motivational speaker.
 
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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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“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 was 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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“No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you’ll work harder for a while; that means you’ll work longer for a while. But you’ll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road.” -Tom Hopkins
 
Tom Hopkins was born in 1944. He is an American sales trainer, speaker, and writer.
 
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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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“If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.” -E. W. Howe
 
“The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent.” -E. W. Howe
 
“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” -E. 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 was 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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“Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.” -Lewis Howes
 
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“Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there’s so little competition.” -Elbert Hubbard

“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.” -Elbert Hubbard: “The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams” (1923)
 
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
“Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.” -Elbert Hubbard: “The Motto Book” (1907)
 
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
“We work to become, not to acquire.” -Elbert Hubbard: “A Thousand and One Epigrams” (1911)
 
“When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that . . . the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.” -Elbert Hubbard
 
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on 19 June 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America. He was 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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“The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.” -Kin Hubbard
 
Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard was born in 1868. He was an American journalist, cartoonist, humorist, and political commentator. Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard passed on in 1930.
 
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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)

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” -Charles Evans Hughes
 
Charles Evans Hughes was born in 1862. He was 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
 
God whose gifts in gracious flood
     Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
     And is content.
-Victor Hugo: “God Whose Gifts in Gracious Flood”
 
“Inspiration and genius - one and the same.” -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 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 was 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 true 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 an English novelist, essayist, magazine editor, writer of short stories and movie scripts, critic, and poet. His novels include “Crome Yellow” (1921), “Point Counter Point” (1928), and “After Many a Summer” (1939). 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’

1/23/2017

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“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” -Lee Iacocca
 
Lido Anthony ‘Lee’ Iacocca was born on 15 October 1924. He was an executive at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960’s and at the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980’s.
 
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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
 
“And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it.” -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
 
“Rob the average man of his illusion and you rob him of his happiness at one stroke.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.” -Henrik 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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“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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“Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.” -William R. Inge
 
“I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humor.” -William R. Inge
 
“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
 
“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.” -William R. Inge
 
“Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.” -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
 
“We are what we love.” -William R. Inge
 
William Ralph Inge was born on 6 June 1860 in Crayke, Yorkshire, England. He was an Anglican priest (Church of England), professor of divinity at Cambridge University, the Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London (1911 - 1934) where he became known as Dean Inge, and 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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“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” -Robert G. Ingersoll: in a Decoration Day address (1822)
 
“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
 
“If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.” -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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“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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Quotations by Authors ‘Ja’ Through ‘Jz’

1/22/2017

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“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” -Henry James, Junior
 
“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, Junior

Henry James, Junior was born on 15 April 1843 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was the son of Henry James, Senior, and a brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He became an American novelist and critic who spent much of his career in Great Britain. 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 (born 1920)
 
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“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
 
“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
 
“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 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
 
William James was born on 11 January 1842. He was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher, trained as a medical doctor. 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.
 
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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
 
“Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.” -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 was 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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Not for the mighty world, O Lord, tonight,
Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might -
Let me be glad the kettle gently sings,
Let me be grateful for little things.
-Edna Jaques
 
Edna Jaques was born on 17 January 1891 in Collingwood, Canada. She was a lecturer, a writer, and a poet. Edna Jaques passed on at 87 years of age on 13 September 1978 in Willowdale, Toronto, Canada.
 
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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 was a Scottish lawyer, judge, and literary critic. Francis Jeffrey passed on in 1850.
 
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“Praise shall conclude that work which prayer began.” -William Jenkyn
 
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“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease.” -Edward Jenner
 
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“Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.” -Jerome
 
“The scars of others should teach us caution.” -Jerome: letter 54
 
Jerome was born as Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus in about C.E. 347 in Stridon, Dalmatia on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. 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 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
 
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He was 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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“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens.” -Douglas William Jerrold
 
Douglas William Jerrold was born in 1803. He was 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’
 
“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
 
“It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
 
“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)
 
“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Fiction” (1896)
 
“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)
 
“There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness . . . I can’t help believing that nothing is better than to find one’s work early and hold fast to it, and put all one’s heart into it.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
 
“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)
 
“Yes’m, old friends is always best, ’less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Fiction” (1896)
 
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 was 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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“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
 
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
 
Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs was born in 1955. He was 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 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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“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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“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.” -Samuel Johnson: “Rasselas,” line spoken by fictional character Imlac
 
“God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?” -Samuel Johnson
 
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“He may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.” -Samuel Johnson: as quoted in “Rambler,” #175
 
“He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many founder in their passage, while they lie waiting for the gale.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.” -Samuel Johnson: “Rasselas,” line spoken by fictional character Imlac
 
“I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” -Samuel Johnson: “The Rambler” (18 December 1750) English journal
 
“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.” -Samuel Johnson: “Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain” (1756)
 
“Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.” -Samuel Johnson: “Rambler,” #117
 
“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.” -Samuel Johnson: “Rasselas” (1759)
 
“Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.” -Samuel Johnson

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odors from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture, from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“The first years of man must make provision for the last.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.” -Samuel Johnson
 
“We desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.” -Samuel Johnson: “The Rambler,” (7 April 1750), number 6
 
“You must not mind me, madam; I say strange things, but I mean no harm.” -Samuel Johnson: “Fanny Burney,” diary 23 August 1778
 
Samuel Johnson, also known as Doctor Johnson, was born in 1709. He was one of England’s best-known literary figures. He was an essayist, a poet, a biographer, an editor, a lexicographer, and a literary critic. He possessed great wit as a prose stylist and was well known for his aphorisms. Samuel Johnson passed on in 1784.
 
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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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“I have not yet begun to fight!” -John Paul Jones
 
“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.” -John Paul Jones
 
John Paul Jones was born in 1747. He was 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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“It takes courage to live a life, any life.” -Erica Jong
 
Erica Mann Jong was born in 1942. She is an American writer and teacher, best known for her fiction and poetry.
 
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“We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.” -Barbara Jordan (1936-1966) Speech at Bar Association, 1967
 
Barbara Charline Jordan was born on 21 February 1936 in Houston, Texas, United States of America. She was a lawyer, an educator, and a politician. She is known for having been a member of the United States Congress (1973 - 1979). Barbara Charline Jordan passed on at 59 years of age on 17 January 1966 in Austin, Texas, United States of America.
 
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“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.” -David Starr Jordan
 
“The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make people stronger.” -David Starr Jordan
 
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” -David Starr Jordan
 
David Starr Jordan was born on 19 January 1851. He was an ichthyologist (someone who studies fish) and an educator. He was a president of Indiana University and the founding president of Stanford University. David Starr Jordan passed on at 80 years of age on 19 September 1931.
 
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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 9000 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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“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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“Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.” -Joubert
 
“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.” -Joseph Joubert 

“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.” -Joseph Joubert, as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
 
“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 was 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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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” -C. G. Jung
 
“I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.” -C. G. Jung
 
Carl Gustav Jung, also known as C. G. Jung, was born on 26 July 1875 in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. He was a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, and a writer. He founded analytical psychology and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Carl Gustav Jung passed on at 85 years of age on 6 June 1961 in Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland.
 
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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 actually 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. 55. He was a poet and a satirist of ancient Rome. He is known for his “Satires.” Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis passed on in C.E. 130.
 
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1/21/2017

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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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“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 was 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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“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.” -Mary Ann Kelty
 
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“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.” -Thomas à Kempis: “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418)
 
“Whoever loves much, does much.” -Thomas à Kempis: “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418), I, xv
 
Thomas à Kempis was born in about 1379 in Kempen, Prince-Archbishopric of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire. He was a Christian monk, a theologian, and an ascetical writer. Thomas à Kempis passed away on 25 July 1471 in Zwolle, Bishopric of Utrecht, Holy Roman Empire.
 
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“God gave His children memory that in life’s garden there might be June roses in December.” -G. A. Studdert Kennedy: “Roses in December” (similar quotation attributed to James Matthew Barrie)
 
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, also known as G. A. Studdert Kennedy, was born in 1883. Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy passed on in 1929.
 
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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 was 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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“Church is for sinners.” -Eli Khamarov: “The Old Working Model”
 
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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 was a business leader. Victor Kiam passed on in 2001.
 
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“God created out of nothing - wonderful you say: yes to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.” -Søren Kierkegaard (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)): “Journal” (7 July 1838)
 
“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle again.” -Søren Kierkegaard
 
“Once you label me, you negate me.” -Søren Kierkegaard
 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark. He was a philosopher, theologian, poet, and 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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“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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“When people stop reading the Bible and Shakespeare they cut themselve 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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“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 was an American actress and singer noted for her comic talents and rich contralto. Lisa Kirk passed on in 1990.
 
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“Offer daily to be of use to the Lord.” -Kate L. Kirkham (12 April 1994)
 
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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
 
Grenville Kleiser was born in 1868 in Toronto, Canada. He was an American instructor in public speaking at the Yale Divinity School of Yale University, and a writer of humor and inspiration. Grenville Kleiser passed away 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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“One man with God is always a majority.” -attributed to John Knox: inscription on the Reformation Monument in Geneva, Switzerland
 
John Knox was born in about 1513 in Giffordgate, Haddington, Scotland. He was a Christian Protestant religious leader, a minister, a theologian and a writer. John Knox passed on at about 59 years of age on 24 November 1572 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
 
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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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“All of the significant battles are waged within the self.” -Sheldon Kopp
 
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“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” -Michael Korda
 
Michael Korda was born in 1919. He is an American publisher.
 
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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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“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.” -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
 
“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.” -Elizabeth 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.” -Elizabeth 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 was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and 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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“In a mad world only the mad are sane.” -Akira Kurosawa
 
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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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1/20/2017

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“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.” -Louis L’Amour
 
L’Amour, Louis. Louis L’Amour was born as Louis Dearborn LaMoore on 22 March 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America. He was an American writer of Western fiction. Louis L’Amour passed on at 80 years of age on 10 June 1988 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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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
 
“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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“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
 
Lucy Larcom was born on about 5 March 1826. Lucy Larcom passed on at 67 years of age on 27 April 1893.
 
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“Your joy comes from what you give, not from what you accumulate.” -Frank Laubach
 
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“The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, respect time.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater
 
“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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“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.” -William Law
 
William Law was born in 1686. William Law passed on in 1761.
 
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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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“Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs because politics is a ‘dirty business,’ but the same people are generally quite happy to go into business life, which is in its way just as ‘dirty.’ If the dubious practices and moral compromises of every walk of life were dissected and made known with the glare of publicity which shines on the activities of politicians, then those who like to think that they can keep their hands clean would have very few professions to choose from.” -John Lawrence: “Hard Facts” (1958)
 
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“Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans.” -Fran Lebowitz
 
“Success didn’t spoil me; I’ve always been insufferable.” -Fran Lebowitz

“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.” -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.” -S. J. Lec
 
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was born in 1909. He was a Polish writer. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec passed on in 1966.
 
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“Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.” -Georges-Louis Leclerc: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 444
 
Georges-Louis Leclerc was born on 7 September 1707 in Montbard, Burgundy, France. He was a naturalist. Georges-Louis Leclerc passed on at 80 years of age on 16 April 1788 in Paris, France.
 
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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 was a martial artist instructor and 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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“A man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” -Jack Lee
 
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“It is well that war is so terrible - lest we should grow too fond of it.” -Robert E. Lee
 
“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” -Robert E. Lee
 
Robert E. Lee was born in 1807. Robert E. Lee passed on in 1870.
 
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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”
 
“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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“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.
 
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” -Doris Lessing
 
“Forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.” -Doris Lessing
 
“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 was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer.
 
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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 was 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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“Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world and vilifying human nature.” -George Henry Lewes
 
“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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“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 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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“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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“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.” -Livy
 
Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was born in 59 B.C.E. He was a Roman historian. 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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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” -Sophia Loren
 
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” -Sophia Loren
 
“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.” -Sophia Loren
 
Sophia Loren was born in 1934. She is an Italian actress.
 
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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 Horace Lorimer
 
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” -George Horace 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 remembered as the 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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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
 
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. James Russell Lowell passed on at 72 years of age on 12 August 1891.
 
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“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Pleasures of Life” (1887), volume 1, chapter II: ‘The Happiness of Duty’
 
John Lubbock was born on 30 April 1834. He was an English banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist. He served as President of the Royal Statistical Society. John Lubbock passed on at 79 years of age on 28 May 1913.
 
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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
 
“Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.” -Max Lucado
 
“Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.” -Max Lucado
 
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 was 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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“Life is one long struggle in the dark.” [English translation]
“Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.” [original Latin]
-Lucretius: “De Rerum Natura” (“On the Nature of Things”), Book II, line 54
 
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.” -Lucretius
 
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.” -Lucretius
 
“What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.” [English translation]
“Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, in terras.” [original Latin]
-Lucretius: “De Rerum Natura” (“On the Nature of Things”), Book II, line 999
 
Titus Lucretius Carus, also known simply as Lucretius, was born on about 15 October 99 B.C.E. He was a poet and a philosopher of ancient Rome. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem “De rerum natura” about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as “On the Nature of Things.” Titus Lucretius Carus passed on at about 44 years of age in about 55 B.C.E.
 
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“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.” -Martin Luther
 
“I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.” -Martin Luther
 
“It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.” -Martin Luther
 
“Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.” -Martin Luther
 
“Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.” -Martin Luther
 
“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in words alone, but in every leaf in Springtime.” -Martin Luther
 
Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483. He was a German theologian and leader of the Reformation movement. He began the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, and his followers soon split from the Roman Catholic Church to begin the Protestant tradition. This led to the division of Western Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the Protestant denominations. Martin Luther passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1546.
 
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“I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child. When you’re a child, something as simple as a tree doesn’t make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven’t got a handle on the rules when you’re a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.” -David Lynch
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ma’ Through ‘Mz’

1/19/2017

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“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.” -Hamilton Wright Mabie
 
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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. He was formally addressed as Lord Macaulay. He was an English historian, politician, statesman, essayist, and poet. Thomas Babington Macaulay passed on at 59 years of age on 28 December 1859.
 
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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.
by Charles Mackay (1814 - 1889): “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 was 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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“Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise.” - Harvey Mackay
 
“If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.” -Harvey 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 in 1765. He was a Scottish historian and statesman. James Mackintosh passed on in 1832.
 
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“There’s only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” -Archibald MacLeish
 
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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 in 1796. He was an American educator. Horace Mann passed on in 1859.
 
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“We can do whatever we wish to do, provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed - one doesn’t always want to make it - does one? . . . But what else can be done? What’s the alternative? What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.” -Katherine Mansfield
 
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry, also known simply as Katherine Mansfield, was born in 1888 in colonial New Zealand. She was a short fiction writer. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom. Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry passed on at 34 years of age in 1923.
 
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“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
 
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“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
 
“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 in 1850. Despite having become an orphan 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 that make for a well-rounded life. Many of his ideas are in support of the New Thought philosophy. He is known as the founder of “Success” magazine. Orison Swett Marden passed on in 1924.
 
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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 in 1852. He was an American poet and lecturer. Edwin Markham passed on in 1940.
 
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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)

Don Marquis was born in 1878. He was an American poet and journalist. Don Marquis passed on in 1937.
 
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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
 
“Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today itself’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.” -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 was a Roman poet and 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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“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.” -Miss Manners (Judith Martin (born 1938))
 
“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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“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 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, dramatist (playwright), and 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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“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.” -Neal A. Maxwell
 
“God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability!” -Neal A. Maxwell: “It’s Service, not Status, That Counts,” in “Ensign” (July 1975) magazine, page 7 (similar quotation attributed to Mary Kay Ash)
 
Neal Ash Maxwell was born on 6 July 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He was a soldier in World War 2, a religious missionary, a college professor, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Neal Ash Maxwell passed on at 78 years of age on 21 July 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of, ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” -Marissa Mayer
 
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“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.” -Benjamin Mays: as quoted in “The Crisis” (October 1979)
 
Benjamin Elijah Mays was born on 1 August 1894 in Ninety Six, South Carolina, United States of America. He was a minister, an educator, and a president of Morehouse College (1940 - 1967) in Atlanta, Georgia. Benjamin Elijah Mays passed on at 89 years of age on 28 March 1984 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
 
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“In spiritual things, this world is all Wintertime so long as the Savior is away.” -Robert Murray McCheyne: letter (9 February 1839)
 
“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” -Robert Murray McCheyne: letter (27 June 1839)
 
“Most of God’s people are content to be saved from the Hell that is without. They are not so anxious to be saved from the Hell that is within.” -Robert Murray McCheyne: letter (27 February 1839)
 
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“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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“It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.” -Peter McWilliams
 
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.” -Peter McWilliams (similar quotation attributed to Richard David Bach)
 
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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. She was an American anthropologist. Margaret Mead passed on at 76 years of age on 15 November 1978.
 
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“Men are at war with one another because each man is at war with himself.” -Francis J. Meehan
 
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“The man who runs may fight again.” -Menander of Athens: “Monostikoi”
 
Menander of Athens was born in 342 B.C.E. He was a Greek dramatist. Menander of Athens passed on in 291 B.C.E.
 
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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 (1894 - 1978)
 
Robert Menzies was born in 1894. Robert Menzies passed on in 1978.
 
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“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.” -Thomas Merton
 
“The biggest human temptation is . . . to settle for too little.” -Thomas Merton
 
Thomas Merton was born in 1915. He was a Catholic Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, United States of America, and a writer and a poet. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and 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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“Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.” -John Stuart Mill
 
“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.” -John Stuart Mill
 
John Stuart Mill was born in 1806. He was an English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. John Stuart Mill passed on in 1873.
 
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“If you analyze anything, you destroy it.” -Arthur Miller
 
Arthur Miller was born in 1915. He was an American playwright and 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 Miller passed on in 2005.
 
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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 anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious and awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” -Henry Miller
 
Henry Valentine Miller was born in 1891. He was an American essayist, travel memoirist, literary critic, watercolor painter, and novelist whose works include the books “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn.” Henry Valentine Miller passed on in 1980.
 
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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
 
“When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backward - we may actually be backing up to get a running start.” -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. He was an English poet and civil servant. He was blind when he wrote his epic blank verse poem “Paradise Lost” (1667). John Milton passed on at 65 years of age on 8 November 1674.

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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
 
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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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“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet
 
Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet was born in 1840. He was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. 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 mounted 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 is a bishop and the sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 
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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 (1837-1899)
 
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He was 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 always has two reasons for what he does - a good one, and the real one.” -J. P. Morgan: as attributed in Owen Wister: “Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship” (1930)
 
“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 in 1837. He was an American banker, financier, art collector, and 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 in 1913.
 
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“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.” -Christopher Morley
 
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.” -Christopher Morley
 
Christopher Darlington Morley was born on 5 May 1890 in Pennsylvania, United States of America. He was 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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“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 W. Morrow was born in 1873. He was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat. Dwight W. Morrow passed on in 1931.
 
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“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” -Kate Morton
 
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“You only get paid for done.” -Dax Moy: “The Magic Hundred” (14 September 2008) as published on 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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“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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“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
 
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1/18/2017

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“Grant me the ability to be alone, may it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.” -Nachman of Breslov
 
“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 the 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, a branch of Hasidic Judaism. 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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“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 Lady 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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“Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.” -Simon Newcomb
 
Simon Newcomb was born in 1835. He was an American astronomer. Simon Newcomb passed on in 1909.
 
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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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“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he had done.” -John Henry Newman
 
“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. He was an English convert to Roman Catholicism, eventually becoming a cardinal. John Henry Newman passed on in 1890.
 
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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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“When you get down to the root of the meaning of the word ‘succeed,’ you will find it simply means to follow through.” -F. W. Nichols
 
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“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . . and expectation.” -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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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” -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 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
 
“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“What does not kill 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
 
“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” -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 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
 
“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.” -Earl Nightingale
 
“Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.” -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 1950s of “Sky King,” the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. He is the author of the motivational book, “The Strangest Secret.” Earl Nightingale passed on in 1989.
 
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“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 W. Nimitz was born in 1885. He was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. Chester W. Nimitz passed on in 1966.
 
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“It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -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
 
“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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“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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“Half the things that people do not succeed in, are through fear of making the attempt.” -James Northcote
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Oa’ Through ‘Oz’

1/17/2017

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“The issue of time is not what we have done but what we have become. It soon becomes apparent that the critical element is progress, not longevity. The question is not how much time we have logged, but how far we have progressed.” -Dallin H. Oaks
 
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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 more than novels are “Black Water,” “What I Lived For,” and “Blonde.”
 
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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 in 1911. She was the world’s oldest college graduate.
 
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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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“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
 
“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 was an American 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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“But, the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.” -Mary Oliver
 
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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” -Ken Olson (1977)
 
Ken Olsen founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, and was later its president and chairman.
 
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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


“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904. He was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project that 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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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 was a short story writer, 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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“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 in 1927. He is an American magician and 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 in 1844. He was an Irish-born poet and journalist. John Boyle O’Reilly passed on in 1890.
 
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“Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
“Never fight an inanimate object.” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty in finding someone to blame your troubles on. And when you do find someone, it’s remarkable how often their picture turns up on your driver’s license.” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
“You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.” -P. J. O’Rourke
 
P. J. O’Rourke was born in 1947. He is an American political satirist.
 
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
 
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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 in 1883. He was a Spanish philosopher. José Ortega y Gasset passed on in 1955.
 
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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 E. Osborn is a reverend.
 
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“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919): as quoted in “Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings” (1961), page 105
 
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -William Osler
 
“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
 
“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. He was a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919.
 
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“Act like you are blessed. Talk like you are blessed. Walk like you are blessed. Put actions behind your faith and one day you will see it become a reality.” -Joel Osteen

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 was an American author, televangelist, and senior pastor of Lakewood church in Houston, Texas. Mr. 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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When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
And you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown
You must believe that one of two things will happen
There will be something solid for you to stand upon
Or you will be taught to fly.
-Patrick Overton: “The Leaning Tree” (1975): “Faith”; type of work: poem within a collection of poems in book form (similar quotation attributed to Barbara J. Winter)
 
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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
 
Jesse Owens was born in 1913. He was an American athlete. In 1935, Jesse Owens set six track and field world records in less than one hour. Jesse Owens passed on in 1980.
 
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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’

1/16/2017

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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 was a writer, talk show host, and comedian. He is known for being the host of the television show “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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“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 was an American baseball player who pitched in several different leagues, including Major League Baseball. Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige passed on in 1982.
 
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“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 political theorist, writer, and political pamphleteer; author of “Common Sense” (1776). Thomas Paine passed on in 1809.
 
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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” -Dorothy Parker
 
“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
 
Dorothy Parker was born as Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 in Long Beach, New Jersey, United States of America. She was an American short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, humorist, 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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“Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst
 
Charles Henry Parkhurst was born in 1842 in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America. He was an American clergyman and social reformer. Charles Henry Parkhurst passed on in 1933.
 
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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 is an American country music singer.
 
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” -Blaise Pascal: “Pensées” (“Thoughts”) (1670), 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
 
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 was the inventor of the pasteurization process. Louis Pasteur passed on in 1895.
 
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“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.” -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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“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” -Paul: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Letter to the Philippians’ (between about C.E. 50 and C.E. 60), chapter 4, verse 8
 
“God loves a cheerful giver.” -Paul: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Second Corinthians,’ chapter 9, verse 2
 
Paul, originally known as Saul of Tarsus, was an early Christian theologian and leader, and one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus of Nazareth.
 
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“Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.” -Jean Paul: as attributed in Henry Southgate, editor: “Many Thoughts of Many Minds” (1862)
 
“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.” -Jean Paul (1763-1825): “Titan” (1803)
 
“The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.” -Jean Paul
 
Jean Paul is a pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, who was born on 21 March 1763 in Wunsiedel, Holy Roman Empire. He was a writer of humorous novels and short stories. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter passed on at 62 years of age on 14 November 1825 in Bayreuth, German Federation.
 
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“I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.” -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 was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Linus Carl Pauling passed on in 1994.
 
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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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“Find a need and fill it.” -Ruth Stafford Peale 
 
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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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“If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.” -M. Scott Peck
 
“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening.” -M. Scott Peck
 
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“Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.” -Charles Pegúy
 
Charles Pegúy was born in 1873. Charles Pegúy passed on in 1914.
 
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“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” -William Penn
 
William Penn was born in 1644. He was a Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who 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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“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 was 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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“Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.” -Tom Peters
 
Tom J. Peters was born in 1942. He is a writer and a speaker.
 
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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)
 
“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: vice, avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.” -Petrarch
 
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 was 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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“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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“One, on God’s side, is a majority.” -Wendell Phillips: “Harper’s Ferry” (1 November 1859) lecture in Brooklyn, New York
 
“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 was 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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“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.” -Mary Pickford
 
“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” -Mary Pickford: as quoted in Carolyn Warner: “The Last Word - A Treasury of Women’s Quotes” (1992)
 
Mary Pickford was born as Gladys Louise Smith on 8 April 1893 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, later becoming Gladys Marie Pickford, and eventually becoming known by her stage name, Mary Pickford. She was a Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter. Mary Pickford passed on at 87 years of age on 29 May 1979 in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America.
 
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“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” -Jodi Picoult
 
“You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” -Jodi Picoult
 
Jodi Lynn Picoult was born on 19 May 1966 in Nesconset, New York, United States of America. She is a writer.
 
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“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” -Arthur Wing Pinero
 
Arthur Wing Pinero was born in 1855 in London, England. He was an English actor, dramatist (playwright), and stage director. Arthur Wing Pinero passed on in 1934.
 
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“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” -Robert M. Pirsig
 
“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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“His only fault is that he has no fault.” -Pliny the Younger
 
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” -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 so 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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“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” -Plutarch
 
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” -Plutarch
 
“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.” -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
 
“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.” - Plutarch
 
Plutarch was born in about C.E. 46. He was a historian, essayist, biographer, and 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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“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 was 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.
 
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“An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” -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
 
“While we live we must make the best of life.” -Alexander Pope
 
Alexander Pope was born in 1688. He was lame from birth. He became 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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“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
 
Antonio Porchia was born in 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, poet, and 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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“Knowledge, ability, and experience are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy be lacking. Courtesy is the one passport that will be accepted without question in every land, in every office, in every home, in every heart in the world. For nothing commends itself so well as kindness; and courtesy is kindness.” -George D. Powers
 
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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 was an English 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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“Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.” -George D. Prentice: “Prenticeana” (1860)
 
George Dennison Prentice was born on 18 December 1802 in Preston, Connecticut, United States of America. He was the editor of the “Louisville Journal” newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky. George Dennison Prentice passed on at 67 years of age on 22 January 1870 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States of America.
 
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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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“The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” -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 is 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 is just the misuse of the creative powers we originally got to dream.” -Jannie Putter
 
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“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.” -Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos was born in about 570 B.C.E. on the island of Samos. He was a mathematician and philosopher of ancient Greece. Pythagoras of Samos passed on at about 75 years of age in about 495 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’

1/15/2017

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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’

1/14/2017

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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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“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become victims of our feelings, unless we can in some way command them.” -Anne Radcliffe
 
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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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“In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.” -Karl Rahner
 
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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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“It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God - the state, which of course they intend to run.” -Charley Reese: “Jefferson Speaks” (29 November 2002)
 
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“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” -Christopher Reeve
 
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” -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 was 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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“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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“The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence.” -Edward V. Rickenbacker

“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” -Eddie Rickenbacker
 
Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker was born on 8 October 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. He was 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.
 
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“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” -Pat Riley
 
“Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better.” -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 was a German poet and a 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 
 
“If you want to be successful, find someone who achieved the results you want and copy what they do, and you’ll achieve the same results.” -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
 
Anthony ‘Tony’ Robbins was born in 1960. He is an American actor, self-help writer, and 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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“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” -Tom Robbins: “Still Life with Woodpecker” (October 1980)
 
Thomas Eugene ‘Tom’ Robbins was born on 22 July 1932 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, United States of America. He is a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist.
 
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“Shared grief diminishes, but shared joy increases.” -Spider 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 was 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 was 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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“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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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” -Theodore 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 (1746 - 1813)
 
Benjamin Rush was born in 1746. Benjamin Rush passed on in 1813.
 
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“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.” - Dean Rusk
 
Dean Rusk was born in 1909. He was an American politician. Dean Rusk passed on in 1994.
 
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“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
 
“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” -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
 
“What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” -John Ruskin
 
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” -John Ruskin
 
John Ruskin was born in 1819. He was an English art critic, social critic, poet, writer, draftsman, watercolorist, patron of the arts, and 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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“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.” -Bertrand A. Russell
 
“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 would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” -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

“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
 
“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
 
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” -Bertrand Russell
 
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” -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 a writer, 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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Quotations by Authors ‘Sa’ Through ‘Sz’

1/13/2017

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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” -Carl Sagan
 
“The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.” -Carl Sagan: “Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science” (1979), part 14
 
Carl Edward Sagan was born on 9 November 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. He was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and science writer. Carl Edward Sagan passed on at 62 years of age on 20 December 1996 in Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
 
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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
 
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, also known as George Santayana, was born on 16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain. He was a Spanish-born 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 (playwright), screenwriter, literary critic, and philosopher. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre passed on in 1980.
 
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“It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.” -Dorothy Sayers
 
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in 1893. She was an English writer of detective fiction, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. Dorothy Leigh Sayers passed on in 1957.
 
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“We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.” -Paul Scherer
 
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Mary Schmich
 
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“Every important new idea, when it first appears, is ridiculed.” -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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“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.” -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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“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.” -Charles Schwab
 
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“Happiness comes from what we are, not what we have.” -Richard G. Scott
 
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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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“There must be more to life than having everything.” -Maurice Sendak
 
Maurice Sendak was born in 1928.
 
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“It is later than you think.” -Robert W. Service
 
“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 humorous 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,’ 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 was 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 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 an English novelist, known as the author of the book “Frankenstein.” 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. His second wife, Mary Shelley, was the author of the fictional story, “Frankenstein.” Percy Bysshe Shelley passed on in 1822.
 
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“You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.” -Josh Shipp
 
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“God helps those who help themselves.” -Algernon Sidney (1622 - 1683): “Discourses on Government” (1698), Chapter 2
 
Algernon Sidney was born in 1622. He was an English politician. Algernon Sidney passed on in 1683.
 
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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 was 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 Bell ‘Bubbles’ Silverman, who was born in 1929. She was an American soprano opera singer whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. In her prime, she was the only real rival to Joan Sutherland as the leading bel canto stylist. Bell ‘Bubbles’ Silverman passed on in 2007.
 
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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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“God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Gimpel the Fool” (1957)
 
“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 was a Polish-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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“All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount difficulties and stand up manfully against misfortune.” -Samuel Smiles: “Self-Help” (1859)
 
Samuel Smiles was born in 1812. He was a Scottish physician and self-help writer. He is known as the author of “Self-Help” (1859), “Character” (1871), “Thrift” (1875), and “Duty” (1880). Samuel Smiles passed on in 1904.
 
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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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“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 was 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. Elizabeth Wehmer passed on at 75 years of age on 17 January 1972 in Shelton, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“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 was an essayist and 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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“I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.” -Minnie Smith
 
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“Life is to be fortified by many friendships.” -Sydney Smith
 
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.” -Sydney Smith
 
Sydney Smith was born in 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. He was an English wit, essayist, and 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 such as Charles Dickens. Tobias George Smollett passed on in 1771.
 
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“‘You do not think highly of men, Mr. Eliot.’ ‘I am one,’ I said.” -C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980): “The Light & the Dark” (1947)
 
Charles Percy Snow, also known as C. P. Snow, was born on 15 October 1905 in Leicester, England. He was 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 larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” -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. He was the senior pastor of the 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 the tenth century B.C.E. King of ancient Israel and the reputed author of three books in “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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“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” -Susan Sontag
 
Susan Sontag was born as Susan Rosenblatt on 16 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She was an essayist, a critic, and a novelist. Susan Sontag passed on at 71 years of age on 28 December 2004 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.” -Sophocles
 
“Heaven never helps the man who will not act.” -Sophocles
 
“Truth is always the strongest argument.” -Sophocles
 
Sophocles was born in 496 B.C.E. He was a tragedian of ancient Greece. He wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: “Ajax,” “Antigone,” “The Women of Trachis,” “Oedipus the King,” “Electra,” “Philoctetes,” and “Oedipus at Colonus.” Sophocles passed on in 406 B.C.E.
 
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“If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.” - Julia Soul
 
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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
 
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” -Robert Southey
 
Robert Southey was born in 1774. He was an English poet. 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 Lancaster Spalding
 
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.” -John Lancaster Spalding


“What we love to do we find time to do.” -John Lancaster 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 from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. John Lancaster Spalding passed on in 1916.
 
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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 was 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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“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
 
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.” C. H. 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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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-Pamela Vaull Starr
 
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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 was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in “McClure’s,” called ‘Tweed Days in St. Louis,’ that would later be published together in a book titled, “The Shame of the Cities” (1904). He was 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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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” -Stendhal
 
Stendhal is a pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, who was born on 23 January 1783 in Grenoble, France. He was a writer. Marie-Henri Beyle passed on at 59 years of age on 23 March 1842 in Paris, France.
 
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“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
 
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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 E. Stevenson II
 
“The Human Race has improved everything except the Human Race.” -Adlai Stevenson
 
Adlai E. Stevenson was born on 5 February 1900. He was an American politician and the twenty-third Vice President of the United States of America. Adlai E. Stevenson passed on at 65 years of age on 14 July 1965.
 
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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
 
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone
 
“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.” -W. Clement Stone
 
“With every victory over adversity, you grow in wisdom, stature, and experience. You become a better, bigger person each time you meet a problem.” -W. Clement Stone
 
William Clement Stone, also known as W. Clement Stone, was born in 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He was the founder of the Combined Insurance Company and a self-help writer. William Clement Stone passed on in 2002.
 
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“Every exit is an entry somewhere.” -Tom Stoppard: as quoted in Author Unknown: “Body, Mind, and Spirit: Daily Meditations” (1990)
 
“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
 
“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
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 became a writer and a philanthropist. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels and travel memoirs, as well as collections of articles and letters. She is perhaps best 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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“They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low, and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.” -J. Michael Straczynski
 
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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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“Ninety percent of everything is crud.” -Theodore Sturgeon
 
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“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.” -Anne Sullivan
 
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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 with numerous books and essays 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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“The world is its own magic.” -Shunryu Suzuki
 
Shunryu Suzuki was born in 1904. Shunryu Suzuki passed on in 1971.
 
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“Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.” -Publilius Syrus

“Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.” -Publilius Syrus
 
“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 633
 
“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” -Publilius Syrus
 
“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 675
 
“It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.” [English translation]
“Stultum est timere quod vitare no potes.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus
 
“Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 120
 
“Never find your delight in another’s misfortune.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 467
 
“No one reaches a high position without daring.” -Publilius Syrus
 
“Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 557
 
“Receive an injury rather than do one.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 5
 
“There are some remedies worse than the disease.” -Publilius Syrus
 
“What happens to one man may happen to all.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 171
 
“Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 191
 
“You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.” -Publilius Syrus: as attributed in Darius Lyman: “The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: from the Latin” (1856): “Sententiae,” Maxim 262
 
Publilius Syrus was born in 85 B.C.E. in Syria. He was taken to ancient Roman Italy to be a slave, but was freed and educated by his slave-master. He became a writer of mimes, or simple farcical dramas including mimicry, popular in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and also of maxims. He is known for his “Sententiae” (“Sentences”), a collection of maxims in verse form. Publilius Syrus passed on in 43 B.C.E. Publilius’ name, due to early Medieval palatalization of ‘l’ between two ‘i,’ is often presented by manuscripts in corrupted form as ‘Publius.’
 
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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
 
“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
 
Albert Szent-Györgyi was born in 1893. He was a biochemist. Albert Szent-Györgyi passed on in 1986.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ta’ Through ‘Tz’

1/12/2017

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“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.” -Rabindranath Tagore
 
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” -Rabindranath Tagore
 
Rabindranath Tagore, also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, was born as Rabindranath Thakur on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India. He became a poet, a short story writer, a song composer, a playwright, an essayist, and a painter. He is known as the author of “Gitanjali,” “Gora,” “Ghare-Baire,” “Jana Gana Mana,” “Amar Shonar Bangla,” and other works. Rabindranath Tagore passed on at 80 years of age on 7 August 1941 in Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India.
 
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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 was 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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“One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” -Ida Scott Taylor (Ida Scott Taylor McKinney (1855 - 1932))
 
Ida Scott McKinney was born as Ida Scott Taylor in 1855 in Springfield, Illinois, United States of America. She was a daughter of Thomas G. Taylor and Eliza Helen (Chappell) Taylor, and had a sister named Lou (Taylor) Nolan. She became a hymn composer, a writer, and a poet. On 5 June 1895, she married William E. McKinney (1851 - 1936). Ida Scott McKinney passed on in 1932.
 
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“The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic’s terrible.” -Jeff Taylor
 
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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 was 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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“I’ve learned to hold everything loosely because it hurts when God pries my fingers from it.” -Corrie ten Boom
 
Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom was born in 1892. She was a Dutch Christian evangelist. Working together with her father and other family members, she helped many Jews escape the Holocaust during World War II, and she was imprisoned as a result. Her book, “The Hiding Place,” describes the ordeal. Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom passed on in 1983.
 
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More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of.
-Alfred Tennyson
 
“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. With his brother, he wrote “Poems by Two Brothers” (1828). He was the nation’s poet laureate from 1850 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 what ever needs it.” -Terence
 
Publius Terentius Afer, also known as Terence, was born in 185 B.C.E. He was a comic dramatist (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, also known as Terence, passed on at about 26 years of age in 159 B.C.E.
 
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“Always be joyful. That is the only truly saintly state.” -Teresa of Ávila
 
“The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.” -Teresa of Ávila
 
Teresa of Ávila was born as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada on 28 March 1515 in Gotarrendura, Ávila, Crown of Castile (now Spain). She was a Roman Catholic nun, a writer, and the founder of the Discalced Carmelites (1560 - 1562). Teresa of Ávila passed on at 67 years of age on 4 October 1582 in Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain.
 
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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
 
“True holiness consists in doing God’s work with a smile.” -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
 
“What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.” -Teresa of Calcutta: “A Gift for God” (1 August 1975), ‘Carriers of Christ’s Love’
 
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 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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“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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“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” -William M. Thackeray
 
William Makepeace Thackeray was born in 1811. He was married to Isabella Shawe in 1836. He was an English novelist, illustrator, and journalist. He was a contributor to “Punch” and editor of “Cornhill.” He is known for his satirical panoramic portrait of English society titled, “Vanity Fair.” William Makepeace Thackeray passed on in 1863.
 
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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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“The fact that few people go there is one of the most persuasive reasons for traveling to a place.” -Paul Theroux: “The happy Isles of Oceania,” ‘Paddling the Pacific’
 
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“Jesus did not say, ‘You are the honey of the world.’ He said, ‘You are the salt of the Earth.’ Salt bites, and the unadulterated message of the judgement and grace of God has always been a biting thing.” -Helmut Thielicke
 
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“One day we will meet beside the river and our Lord will dry every tear. For now, we must live in the joy of that promise and recall that for every generation Life is hard, but God is faithful.” -Bodie Thoene
 
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“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” -Clarence Thomas
 
Clarence Thomas was born in 1948.
 
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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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“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” -Lowell Thomas
 
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“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.” -Dorothy Thompson
 
Dorothy Thompson was born in 1894. Dorothy Thompson passed on in 1961.
 
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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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“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.” -Hunter S. Thompson
 
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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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“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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“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 Thurber was born in 1894. He was an American humorist and cartoonist. James Thurber passed on in 1961.
 
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“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.” -Paul Tillich
 
“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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“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
“It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
“Some people choose their ideas the way they choose their clothes - according to the latest fashion.” -Leo Tolstoy
 
“The more 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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“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 road to success is always under construction.” -Lily Tomlin
 
Lily Tomlin is a pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin, who was born in 1939. She is an American actress and comedian.
 
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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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“God’s will is in God’s Word.” -Ron Tottingham
 
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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 was a Methodist prior to becoming a new thought writer and publisher. Elizabeth Towne passed on in 1965.
 
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“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.” -A. W. Tozer
 
Aiden Wilson Tozer, also known as A. W. Tozer, was born in 1897 in Pennsylvania, United States of America. He was an American Christian pastor, writer, and magazine editor. Aiden Wilson Tozer passed on in 1963.
 
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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
 
“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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“Life is not an easy matter . . . You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” -Leon Trotsky: “Diary in Exile” (1935), ‘3 April 1935’
 
Leon Trotsky was born as Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879 near Yelizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He was a Russian revolutionary, political theorist, and politician. Leon Trotsky passed on at 60 years of age on 21 August 1940 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.
 
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“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor; rich is better.” -Sophie Tucker
 
Sophie Tucker was born in 1884. She was an American vaudeville artist. Sophie Tucker passed on in 1966.
 
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Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
-Thomas Tusser: “A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry” (1557), ‘April’s Husbandry’
 
Thomas Tusser was born in about 1524. He was an English agricultural writer and poet. Thomas Tusser passed on in 1580.
 
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“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that ‘I can do it’ - is the opposite of fear (‘What if I fail?’). And faith creates motivation, which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation . . . and eventually success.” -Howard Twilley
 
Howard Twilley was born on 25 December 1943 in Houston, Texas, United States of America. He was a professional football player for the Miami Dolphins and the Minnesota Vikings.
 
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“Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.” -Joe Tye 
 
“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
 
“Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than two sides.” -Frank Tyger
 
“When you like your work, every day is a holiday.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
 
Frank Tyger was born in 1929. Frank Tyger passed on in 2011.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ua’ Through ‘Uz’

1/11/2017

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“Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf (Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (born 1940))
 
Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf was born on 6 November 1940 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is a German aviator, an airline executive, and a religious leader in the Latter-day Saints Church.
 
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.” -Harvey Ullman
 
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“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.” -John Updike
 
John Hoyer Updike was born on 18 March 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He was a poet and a writer of children’s books, novels, short stories, and non-fiction; he was a literary critic and an art critic; he is known for his “Rabbit” book series. John Hoyer Updike passed on at 76 years of age on 27 January 2009 in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Which beginning of time according to our chronology, fell upon the entrance of the night preceding the twenty third day of October in the year of the Julian Calender, 710 [4004 B.C.E.].” -James Ussher: “The Annals of the World” (1658) page 1, ‘On the Creation’
 
James Ussher was born in 1581. James Ussher passed on in 1656.
 
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“As you work toward your goal, anxiously anticipating the light at the end of the tunnel, don’t forget to notice the light that shines upon you today.” -Michelle C. Ustaszeski
 
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“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” -Peter Ustinov
 
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” -Peter Ustinov: as quoted in “Iron and Steel” (1969)
 
Peter Alexander Ustinov was born in 1921. He was a British entertainer, actor, director, and writer. Peter Alexander Ustinov passed on in 2004.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Va’ Through ‘Vz’

1/10/2017

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“Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.” - Paul Valéry
 
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.” -Paul Valéry
 
Paul Valéry was born in 1871. He was a French poet and critic. Paul Valéry passed on in 1945.
 
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“If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.” -Abigail van Buren
 
“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.” -Abigail van Buren
 
Abigail van Buren is a pseudonym of Pauline Esther ‘Popo’ Phillips, who was born on 4 July 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States of America. She was an advice columnist and radio show host who began the “Dear Abby” column in 1956. During her decades writing the column, it became the most widely syndicated column in the world, appearing in 1,400 newspapers around the world, with 110 million of readers. Pauline Esther ‘Popo’ Phillips passed on at 94 years of age on 16 January 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
 
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“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born in 1886. He was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe passed on in 1969.
 
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“Happiness is inward and not outward, and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.” -Henry van Dyke
 
Not to the swift, the race.
Not to the strong, the fight.
-Henry van Dyke

“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.” -Henry van Dyke
 
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” -Henry van Dyke
 
Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior was born on 10 November 1852. He was an American clergyman, educator, short story writer, poet, and essayist. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 10 April 1933.
 
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“It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.” -Arthur H. Vandenberg
 
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“Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. All things are possible! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.” -Iyanla Vanzant
 
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“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” -Vegetius
 
“In time of peace prepare for war.” -Vegetius
 
“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” -Vegetius
 
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, also known simply as Vegetius, was a military expert of ancient Rome.
 
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“Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.” -Theophane Venard
 
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“Believe one who has tried it.” [English translation]
“Trust one who has proved it.” [variant English translation]
“Experto credite.” [original Latin]
-Vergil
 
“Fortune favors the brave.” [English translation]
“Fortune favors the bold.” [variant English translation]
“Audaces fortuna iuvat.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), book 10, line 284
 
“Maybe one day it will be cheering to remember even these things.” [English translation]
“Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.” [variant English translation]
“Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.” [variant English translation]
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), book 1, line 203
 
“The greatest wealth is health.” -Vergil
 
“Time bears all away, even memory.” [English translation]
“Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “Ecloga,” book 9, line 51
 
“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages!” -Vergil
 
“We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.” -Vergil
 
Publius Vergilius Maro, also known as Vergil or Virgil, was born in 70 B.C.E. He was a writer and a poet of ancient Rome. He is known for three major works of Latin literature: the “Eclogues,” the “Georgics,” and the epic “Aeneid.” Publius Vergilius Maro passed at about 51 years of age on in 19 B.C.E.
 
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“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.” -Paolo Veronese
 
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“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott

David Viscott is a psychiatrist and a writer.
 
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“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.” -Karl von Clausewitz
 
Karl von Clausewitz was born in 1780. Karl von Clausewitz passed on in 1831.
 
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“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: as quoted in D. Scrase and W. Mieder, translators: “Aphorisms” (1994), page 29
 
“The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
 
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was born on 13 September 1830. She was an Austrian novelist. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach passed on at 85 years of age on 12 March 1916.
 
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“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“A person hears only what he understands.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflections? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“‘Know thyself’? If I knew myself, I’d run away.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is not enough; we must do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“Let us not forget that a man can never get away from himself.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Torquato Tasso” (1790), Part 1, line 2
 
“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that never other otherwise would have occurred . . .
Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can do,
Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Begin it now.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
“We should quietly hear both sides.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Stadtkreis, Hessen, Germany. He was a scientist, a poet, a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), a natural philosopher, and a diplomat. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe passed on at 82 years of age on 22 March 1832 in Weimar, Weimarer Stadtkreis, Thüringen, Germany.
 
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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” -Wilhelm von Humboldt: as quoted in Jordan S. Metzger: “Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness” (2000), page 9
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt, also known simply as Wilhelm von Humboldt, was born on 22 June 1767 in Potsdam, Prussia. He was a German statesman, a diplomat, and a philosopher. He was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, and a brother of Alexander von Humboldt. He founded Humboldt Univesität (English: University) in Berlin. Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt passed on at 67 years of age on 8 April 1835 in Tegel, Prussia.
 
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“Government is the only agency which can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless.” -Ludwig von Mises
 
“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.” -Ludwig von Mises
 
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“Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!” -Johann von Schiller
 
“I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.” -Johann von Schiller
 
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” -Friedrich Schiller
 
The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
-Friedrich Schiller
 
“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.” -Johann von Schiller: “Mary Stuart” (1800), Act II, scene iii

“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.” -Johann von Schiller
 
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was born in 1759. He was a German dramatist (playwright), essayist, historian, poet, and philosopher. He is the author of the plays “The Robbers” (1781), “Don Carlos” (1787), “William Tell” (1804), the trilogy “Wallenstein” (1796), and the poem “Ode to Joy.” Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller passed on in 1805.
 
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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” -Albert von Szent-Györgyi: “The Scientist Speculates” (1962)
 
Albert von Szent-Györgyi was born in 1893. He was a Hungarian-born biochemist. Albert von Szent-Györgyi passed on in 1992.
 
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” -Kurt Vonnegut, Junior
 
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut
 
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was born on 11 November 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. He was a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Kurt Vonnegut, Junior passed on at 84 years of age on 11 April 2007 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Cheerfulness: A state of mind free from gloom or dejection. It is the duty of every Christian, by faith in the goodness, power, and love of God, to cultivate a cheerful frame of mind, even though this may be difficult by reason of afflictions.” -J. G. Vos
 
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“Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.” -Marilyn vos Savant: as quoted in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham: “And I Quote: The Definitive Collection . . .” (2003), page 53
 
“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.” -Marilyn vos Savant
 
Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946. She is an American lecturer, writer, playwright, and an advice columnist (1986 - present) under the heading ‘Ask Marilyn’ in “Parade Magazine.”
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Wa’ Through ‘Wz’

1/9/2017

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“All my life I’ve always wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.” -Jane Wagner: “The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1985)
 
Jane Wagner was born in 1935. She is an American writer, director, and producer.
 
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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful.” -Denis Waitley
 
“People waste most of their waking hours every day going through the motions, chatting idly, shuffling paper, putting off decisions, reacting, majoring in minors, and concentrating on trivia. They spend their time in low priority tension relieving, rather than high priority goal-achieving activities.” -Denis Waitley 
 
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” -Denis Waitley
 
Denis E. Waitley was born in 1933. He is an American motivational speaker, speaker trainer, and writer of self-help books. He was a founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.
 
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I perceive all the professors of esoteric knowledge
to be full of learning with no application -
Day and night wasting their lives,
pursuing discussion, chatter, and empty disputation.
-Ni’matullah Wali
 
Ni’matullah Wali was born in 1331. Ni’matullah Wali passed in about 1431.
 
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker
 
Alice Walker was born in 1944. She is an American writer, poet, and essayist.
 
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” -Margaret Walker
 
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“We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.” -Basil S. Walsh
 
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Human hopes and human creeds
Have their roots in human needs.
-Eugene Fitch Ware
 
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“When the church is unified and the Lord is glorified, then the saints will be edified, sinners will be sanctified, and the devil will be terrified.” -Anthony Warner
 
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“An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.” -Booker T. Washington
 
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.” -Booker T. Washington
 
“I will permit no man . . . to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” -Booker T. Washington: “Up From Slavery” (1901), chapter 11
 
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” -Booker T. Washington
 
“There is no power on Earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life.” -Booker T. Washington
 
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in 1856. He was an American educator, writer, orator, and presidential advisor. Booker T. Washington passed on in 1915.
 
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“Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are impermanent.” -Alan Watts
 
Alan Wilson Watts was born on 6 January 1915 in Chislehurst, England. He immigrated to the United States of America in 1938. He was a philosopher, writer, and speaker. Alan Wilson Watts passed on at 58 years of age on 16 November 1973.
 
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I’ll not willingly offend,
Nor be easily offended;
What’s amiss I’ll strive to mend,
And endure what can’t be mended.
-Isaac Watts: “Moral Songs” (1715), page 53, ‘Good Resolutions,’ stanza 8
 
Isaac Watts was born in 1674. He was an English hymn writer. Isaac Watts passed on in 1748.
 
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“If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.” -Mary Webb
 
“We are tomorrow’s past.” -Mary Webb
 
Mary Webb was born in 1881. She was an English romantic novelist and poet whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably in the film “Gone to Earth” (1950) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Mary Webb passed on in 1927.
 
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“The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still.” -John Webster
 
John Webster was born in about 1580 in London, England. He was an English Jacobean dramatist known for his tragedies, including “The Duchess of Malfi.” His life and career overlapped that of William Shakespeare. John Webster passed on at about 54 years of age in about 1634 in London, England.
 
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“Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the ‘impossible,’ we very soon would find the truth of that old saw that nothing is impossible . . . Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.” -C. E. Welch
 
C. E. Welch is a business executive.
 
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“The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: It is work.” -William Weld
 
William Weld is a politician and an attorney.
 
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“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” -H. G. Wells
 
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” -H. G. Wells
 
“The human individual is born now to live in a society for which his fundamental instincts are altogether inadequate.” -H. G. Wells (1938)
 
Herbert George Wells, also known as H. G. Wells, was born on 21 September 1866 in Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom. He was a novelist in the genres of science fiction, history, school textbooks, and politics; a teacher; a historian; and a sociologist. He is known for his science fiction works, including “The War of the Worlds,” “The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” and “The Island of Doctor Moreau.” Herbert George Wells passed on at 79 years of age on 13 August 1946 in Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom.
 
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“If God be with you, who can be against you?” -John Wesley: letter to William Wilberforce (20 February 1791)
 
“Make all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.” -John Wesley
 
“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities.” -John Wesley: letter (21 February 1756) to Samuel Furley
 
John Wesley was born on 28 June 1703 in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. He was a preacher and a theologian who served in both the Anglican and Methodist Churches. With his brother Charles, he founded the Methodist movement in the Church of England. He formed religious societies in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, appointed itinerant and unordained preachers to evangelize, and brought more people to the church. John Wesley passed on at 87 years of age on 2 March 1791 in London, England.
 
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“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry West
 
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“An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.” -Edith Wharton
 
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” -Edith Wharton
 
Edith Wharton was born in 1862. Edith Wharton passed on in 1937.
 
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“True non-judgementalism is a logical impossibility. To forbid or exclude a value judgement is to assume, unconsciously, that the highest value is to have no values.” -John White
 
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“Go to bed seasonably, and rise early. Redeem your precious time: pick up the fragments of it, that not one moment of it may be lost. Be much in secret prayer. Converse less with man, and more with God.” -George Whitefield
 
George Whitefield was born in 1714. George Whitefield passed on in 1770.
 
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
-John Greenleaf Whittier: “A Song of Harvest” (1858)
 
John Greenleaf Whittier was born on 17 December 1807 in Massachusetts, United States of America. He was a self-educated Quaker and a poet. Mr. Whittier published his first book, “Legends of New England in Prose and Verse,” in 1831. His most popular book, “Snow-Bound,” was published in 1866. John Greenleaf Whittier passed on at 84 years of age on 7 September 1892.
 
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“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867. She was an American writer. She is known as the author of the “Little House on the Prairie” series of novels. Laura Ingalls Wilder passed on in 1957.
 
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“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.” -Thornton Wilder


“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing, and seeing great work at some moment every day.” -Thornton Wilder
 
Thornton Niven Wilder was born in 1897. He was an American novelist and dramatist (playwright). Thornton Niven Wilder passed on in 1975.
 
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“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” -Frances E. Willard

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born on 28 September 1839 in Churchville, New York, United States of America. She was a teacher, a temperance reformer, a women’s suffragist, and a President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard passed on at 58 years of age on 17 February 1898.
 
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“How do you say ‘thank you’ for sunshine or health . . . for clear days or gentle rains . . . for happiness, joy, or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live.” -Thomas D. Willhite (1940 - 1983)
 
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“Every creature on Earth is a divine creation.” -A. D. Williams

“Great leaders don’t follow paths, they create them.” -A. D. Williams

“Happiness is not attained by getting what we don’t have, but rather by enjoying what we do have.” -A. D. Williams

“How you say it, is as important as what you say.” -A. D. Williams

“Humans are not the only animals trying to survive each day.” -A. D. Williams

“If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.” -A. D. Williams

“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.” -A. D. Williams

“Man is not the only animal that likes to have fun, to play, to find the joy in life.” -A. D. Williams

“Nothing has a greater influence on the lives of children than the lives of their parents.” -A. D. Williams

“Our life on Earth is just a fragment of our journey.” -A. D. Williams

“The words we choose to speak decide the life we choose to live.” -A. D. Williams

“Truths are quiet. Lies are loud.” -A. D. Williams

“What would you think if all your thoughts reached Heaven?” -A. D. Williams

“When one mystery is solved other mysteries appear.” -A. D. Williams

Anthony Douglas Williams was born in Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and magazine editor. Before beginning to research and write his book “Inside The Divine Pattern,” Anthony was in the film industry. He opened his own family film distribution company in the early 90’s as he was against the increasing violence in mainstream films.
 
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“Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?” -Roy H. Williams
 
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“The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.” -William Carlos Williams
 
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“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” -Marianne Williamson
 
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” -Marianne Williamson
 
“The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half-step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There’s more than room for everyone; in fact, there’s a need for everyone.” -Marianne Williamson
 
Marianne Williamson was born in July 1952. She is an American writer and lecturer.
 
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“Nature’s noblemen are everywhere, in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.” -Nathaniel Parker Willis
 
“Such is the force of envy and ill-nature, that the failings of good men are more published to the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a well-deserving man shall meet with more reproaches than all his virtues will with praise.” -Nathaniel Parker Willis
 
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was born in 1806. He was an American author, poet and editor. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister was Sara Willis (1811 - 1872), who wrote under the name Fanny Fern. Nathaniel Parker Willis passed on in 1867.
 
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“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” -Tom Wilson
 
Tom Wilson is the creator of the cartoon strip “Ziggy.”
 
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“We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.” -Walter Winchell
 
Walter Winchell was born on 7 April 1897. He was an American journalist and broadcaster. Walter Winchell passed on at 74 years of age on 20 February 1972.
 
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“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” -Larry Winget
 
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“A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much.” -Ken Wisdom
 
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“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I’m a rather bad guide.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein: as quoted in Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, editors: “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information” (2008), page 140
 
“My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Journal entry (8 March 1915)’ page 40; from “Notebooks 1914 - 1916,” as translated by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1961)
 
“Words are deeds.” [English translation]
“Worte sind Taten.” [original German]
-Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Vermischte Bemerkungen” (1977), as translated by Peter Winch, page 50
 
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on 26 April 1889. He was an Austrian-born, but spent much of his life in England. He was a philosopher in logic, mathematics, mind, and language. He taught at the University of Cambridge (1929 - 1947). During his lifetime, he published one book, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” one article, one book review, and one children’s dictionary. However, he wrote large volumes of manuscripts that were edited and published after his passing, some of which are published as “Philosophical Investigations” (1953). Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein passed on at 62 years of age on 29 April 1951.
 
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“He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.” -P. G. Wodehouse
 
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, also known as P. G. Wodehouse, was born in 1881 in Guildford, England. He was a novelist and a humorist. He began his career in banking, but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. He became an American citizen in 1955. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse passed on in 1975.
 
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“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
 
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. She was an English writer in the genres of novels, travel, etiquette, history, and children’s literature; and a philosopher; and a social reformer. She is known for the work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Mary Wollstonecraft passed on in 1797.
 
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“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” -Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
 
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, also known as Lord Halifax, was born on 16 April 1881. He was a British politician. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood passed on at 78 years of age on 23 December 1959.
 
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“The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love.” -George E. Woodberry
 
George Edward Woodberry was born on 12 May 1855 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He was a writer, a literary critic, and a poet. George Edward Woodberry passed on at 74 years of age on 2 January 1930 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John Wooden: “They Call Me Coach”
 
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” -John Wooden
 
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” -John Wooden
 
“If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther.” -John Wooden
 
“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” -John Wooden

“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” -John Wooden
 
“Never mistake activity for achievement.” -John Wooden
 
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.” -John Wooden
 
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” -John Wooden
 
John R. Wooden was born in 1910. He was an American basketball player, college basketball coach, and writer. John R. Wooden passed on in 2010.
 
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“Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.” -Alexander Woollcott
 
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born in 1887. He was an American dramatic and literary critic and commentator for “The New Yorker” magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott passed on in 1943.
 
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf: “A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
 
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.” -Virginia Woolf: “A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
 
Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf was born as Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. She was a novelist, essayist, publisher, and critic. Her notable works include “To the Lighthouse” (1927), “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925), “Orlando” (1928), and the book-length essay, “A Room of One’s Own” (1929). Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf passed on at 59 years of age on 28 March 1941 in River Ouse (near Lewes), Sussex, England.
 
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“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd.” -William Wordsworth
 
“That best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” -William Wordsworth
 
“Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” -William Wordsworth
 
William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770. He was an English poet. He is known for “Lyrical Ballads” (1798) which he and Samuel Taylor Coleridge jointly published. He was poet laureate from 1843 until he passed on. William Wordsworth passed on at 80 years of age on 23 April 1850.
 
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“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was born Frank Lincoln Wright on 8 June 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was an architect, interior designer, writer, and educator. Among his more than 1,000 structural designs and 532 completed works are “Fallingwater” and the Usonian home concept. Frank Lloyd Wright passed on at 91 years of age on 9 April 1959.
 
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“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.” -William Wrigley, Junior
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Xa’ Through ‘Zz’

1/8/2017

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Quotations by Authors ‘Xa’ Through ‘Xz’
 
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“Be great in little things.” -Francis Xavier
 
Francis Xavier was born in 1505. Francis Xavier passed on in 1552.
 
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“Only by great risks can great results be achieved.” -Xerxes I
 
Xerxes I was born in 519 B.C.E. He was a king of Persia (486 B.C.E. - 465 B.C.E.). Xerxes I passed on in 465 B.C.E.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Ya’ Through ‘Yz’
 
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“You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” -Isoroku Yamamoto
 
Isoroku Yamamoto was born on 4 April 1884 in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He was a Japanese navy admiral. Isoroku Yamamoto passed on at 59 years of age on 18 April 1943 on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea.
 
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“The rest of our life is going to be the best of our life!” -Darrell Yarbrough
 
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“When you get to your wit’s end, you’ll find God lives there.” -Elizabeth Yates
 
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“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.” -William Butler Yeats
 
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” -William Butler Yeats
 
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” -William Butler Yeats
 
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
-William Butler Yeats: “Easter, 1916” (1916), part IV, lines 1 - 2
 
William Butler Yeats was born in 1865. He was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a revivalist of Irish literature. He wrote his more important poems between the ages of 50 and 75. William Butler Yeats passed on in 1939.
 
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“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
 
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“And all may do what has by man been done.” -Edward Young
 
“A God all mercy is a God unjust.” -Edward Young: “Night,” Part 4, line 233
 
Edward Young was born in 1683. He was an English poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Edward Young passed on in 1765.
 
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“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” -Eva Young
 
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“Life is a precious gift. Use your days wisely.” -Jenni Young
 
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“The principle is competing against yourself.” -Steve Young
 
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” -Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976): “The Importance of Living” (1937)
 
“Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.” -Lin Yutang
 
“When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.” -Lin Yutang
 
Lin Yutang was born in 1895. He was a Chinese writer and philologist. Lin Yutang passed on in 1976.
 
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Quotations by Authors ‘Za’ Through ‘Zz’
 
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“Find reason to do the important things, instead of reasons not to do them. Risk, experiment, and don’t forget to have some fun while you are at it.” -Ernie Zelinski
 
Ernie Zelinski is a consultant.
 
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“There are too many people, and too few human beings.” -Robert Zend
 
Robert Zend is a writer.
 
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“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” -Zeno
 
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“The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in Heaven.” -Johann Georg Zimmermann
 
Johann Georg Zimmermann, also known as Johann George Ritter von Zimmerman, was born on 8 December 1728 in Brugg, Aargua, Switzerland. He was a Swiss philosophical writer, a naturalist, and a physician. Johann Georg Zimmermann passed on at 66 years of age on 7 October 1795 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
 
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“Turn  yourself  not  away  from  three  best  things:  Good  Thought,  Good  Word,  and  Good  Deed.” -Zoroaster
 
Zoroaster, also known as Zarathushtra, was born in about 628 B.C.E. in Persia (now Iran). He is believed to be the founder of the Zoroastrian religion. Zoroaster passed on in about 551 B.C.E.
 
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“One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.” -Carl Zuckmeyer
 
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“If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your own. These are the gifts that you can give.” -Gary Zukav: “The Seat of the Soul” (1989)
 
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Quotations by Authors Unknown

1/7/2017

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“Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears.” -Author Unknown
 
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“An unexpected turn could become a lifelong path.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Be someone nobody thought you could be.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worthwhile.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Count the cost before you do or say something.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Don’t wait for the perfect moment; take the moment and make it perfect.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Don’t waste a good imagination on worrying.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Enjoy where you are at on the way to where you are going.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Every age confutes old errors, and begets new.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Every day is a day you can be a better person than you were yesterday.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Every moment is golden.” -Author Unknown: English proverb
 
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“Give and forget. Receive and remember.” -Author Unknown
 
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“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” -Author Unknown
 
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“I can’t be late . . . I just got here.” -Author Unknown
 
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“I just ordered a chicken and an egg off the internet, to see which one comes first . . . I’ll keep you posted.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Ideas won’t work unless you do.” -Author Unknown
 
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“If I have an apple and you have an apple and we exchange apples - then you have an apple and I have an apple. But if I have the idea that the apple is red and you have the idea that the apple is small and we exchange ideas, then you have two ideas and I have two ideas.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Phi Kappa Phi Journal” (1952)
 
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“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” -Author Unknown
 
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“If we follow our principles only when it’s convenient to do so, then we really have no principles at all.” -Author Unknown
 
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“If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” -Author Unknown
 
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“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” -Author Unknown
 
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“It’s choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.” -Author Unknown
 
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“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Joy is not in what we own . . . it’s in what we are.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Just because I laugh a lot doesn’t mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face every day, doesn’t mean that something is not bothering me. I just choose to move on, and not dwell on the negatives in my life. Every new moment gives me the chance to renew anew. I choose to be that.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Keeping from falling, is better than helping up.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Leave everything a bit better than you found it.” -Author Unknown
 
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