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Quotations by Authors Aa through Az

2/29/2020

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“‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was, ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’” -John Abbott
 
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“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation . . . is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.” -George Matthew Adams

“Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.” -George Matthew Adams

“Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It’s the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start no matter what the past has been. It’s today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.” -George Matthew Adams
 
“Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.” -George Matthew Adams

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else.  No other argument is necessary to suggest that one never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” -George Matthew Adams
 
“The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world but there must be an overall love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: Builder of Difficult Foundations. That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!” -George Matthew Adams
 
“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.  I don’t care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.”  -George Matthew Adams
 
“You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.” -George Matthew Adams
 
George Matthew Adams was born on 23 August 1878 in Saline, Michigan, United States of America. He became a newspaper columnist and the founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service, which syndicated comic strips and columns to newspapers. His own writings were published widely in newspapers. George Matthew Adams passed on at 84 years of age on 29 October 1962.
 
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“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first a right to life; secondly to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation commonly called the first law of nature.” -Samuel Adams
 
“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.” -Samuel Adams
 
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on Earth for civil and religious liberty.” -Samuel Adams
 
Samuel Adams was born in 1722. He was an American Revolutionary War leader. Samuel Adams passed on in 1803.
 
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“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” -John Addison
 
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“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” -Joseph Addison
 
“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.” -Joseph Addison
 
Joseph Addison was born on 1 May 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England, as the eldest son of Reverend Lancelot Addison. He became an essayist, a dramatist, a poet, a politician, and co-founder with Richard Steele of “The Spectator” (1711 - 1712) magazine. Joseph Addison passed on at 47 years of age on 17 June 1719 in London, England.
 
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“Ask others about themselves. At the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.” -Mortimer Adler

“You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.” -Mortimer Adler
 
Mortimer Jerome Adler was born in 1902. He was an American philosopher in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions, an educator, a writer, and an editor. He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Encyclopedia Britannica, and his own Institute for Philosophical Research. Mortimer Jerome Adler passed on in 2001.
 
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“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.” -Aeschylus
 
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” -Aeschylus

Aeschylus was born in about 523 B.C.E. in Eleusis, Greece. He became a poet and a tragic dramatist. Among other plays, he wrote “Persians” (472 B.C.E.), “Seven Against Thebes” (467 B.C.E.), “The Suppliants” (463 B.C.E.), and “Oresteia” (458 B.C.E.). Aeschylus passed on at about 67 years of age in about 456 B.C.E. in Gela, Sicily, Italy.

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“The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.” -Agis II (427 B.C.E.)

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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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“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.” -John Akers
 
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“Unless you know what you want, you can’t ask for it.” -Emma Albani
 
Emma Albani is a pseudonym of Marie Louise Emma Lajeunesse, who was born in 1852. She was a Canadian soprano. Marie Louise Emma Lajeunesse passed on in 1930.
 
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“A man can do all things if he but wills them.” -Leon Battista Alberti
 
“No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.” -Leon Battista Alberti
 
Leon Battista Alberti was born on 14 February 1404 in Genoa, Italy. He became a writer, an artist, an architect, a poet, a priest, a linguist, a philosopher, a cryptographer, and a general Renaissance polymath. Leon Battista Alberti passed on at 68 years of age on 25 April 1472 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.” -Amos B. Alcott
 
“Thinking makes the man.” -Amos Bronson Alcott

“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.” -Amos Bronson Alcott

“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
 
Amos Bronson Alcott was born on 29 November 1799 in Wolcott, Connecticut, United States of America. He was the father of Louisa May Alcott. He became a schoolteacher, a writer, and a social reformer. Amos Bronson Alcott passed on at 88 years of age on 4 March 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott: “Little Women” (1868 - 1869)
 
“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.” -Louisa May Alcott

“Love is a great beautifier.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” -Louisa May Alcott
 
Louisa May Alcott, also known by the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, was born on 29 November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States of America, as a daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott. She became a novelist. She is known for her book, “Little Women” (1868 - 1869), followed by its sequels, “Good Wives,” “Little Men,” and “Jo’s Boys.” Louisa May Alcott passed on at 55 years of age on 6 March 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.” -Jeremy Aldana
 
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“Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.” -Charles L. Allen
 
Charles Livingstone Allen was born on 24 June 1913 in Newborn, Georgia, United States of America. He became an ordained minister and a pastor, and held the title Reverend in the United Methodist denomination of Christianity. Charles Livingstone Allen passed on at 92 years of age on 30 August 2005 in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
 
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.” -George Allen
 
“Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.” -George Allen
 
George Herbert Allen, Senior was born on 29 April 1918 in Nelson County, Virginia, United States of America. He became a football coach. George Herbert Allen, Senior passed on at 72 years of age on 31 December 1990 in Palos Verdes Estates, California, United States of America.
 
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“A man is literally what he thinks.” -James Allen: “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)
 
“Change your thoughts, change your life.” -James Allen
 
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -James Allen: “As a Man Thinketh” (1903), ‘Visions and Ideals’
 
“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)

“In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.” -James Allen

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.” -James Lane Allen: “As a Man Thinketh” (1903), ‘Effect of Thought on Circumstances’
 
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people things and other people will alter towards him.” -James Allen

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” -James Allen
 
“You are today where, your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -James Allen
 
“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.” -James Allen: “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)

“Your circumstances may be uncongenial but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.” -James Allen
 
James Allen was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England on 28 November 1864. He became a writer. He is known for his inspirational books and poetry, and as a pioneer in the self-help movement. His first book was “From Poverty to Power, or, the Realization of Prosperity and Peace” (1901), but his best-known work is “As a Man Thinketh” (1903). James Allen passed on at 47 years of age on 24 January 1912 in Ilfracombe, Devon, England.
 
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“Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand.” -Robert G. Allen
 
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“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” -Noelie Altito
 
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“The hard part of standing on an exponential curve is, when you look backwards it looks flat, and when you look forwards it looks vertical, and it is very hard to calibrate how much you are moving because it always looks the same.” -Sam Altman
 
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“Live your life with purpose. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Be yourself and don’t wait for the approval of others. But most importantly, have a positive and humble mindset no matter what situation you are in. Count your blessings, not your problems, and you will realize how beautiful your life truly is.” -Troy Amdahl
 
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“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
 
Henri-Frédéric Amiel, also known simply as Henri Amiel, was born on 27 September 1821 in Geneva, Switzerland. He became a moral philosopher, a writer, a poet, and a critic. He is known for his book, “Journal Intime” (English: “Private Journal”) (1884). Henri-Frédéric Amiel passed on at 59 years of age on 11 May 1881 in Geneva Switzerland.
 
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“I don’t pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.” -Dave Anderson

“To succeed, you have to be open to problems. You have to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems.” -Dave Anderson
 
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“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” -Greg Anderson
 
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“How do you balance the budget, cut taxes, and increase defense spending at the same time? It’s very simple. You do it with mirrors.” -John B. Anderson
 
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“There are some men who lift the age that they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.” -Maxwell Anderson
 
Maxwell Anderson was born in 1888. Maxwell Anderson passed on in 1959.
 
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“It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true.” -Sara E. Anderson
 
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“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” -Walter Anderson
 
“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” -Walter Anderson
 
Walter Anderson was born on 31 August 1944. He is an American newspaperman and an editor, and has served as the Chief Executive Officer of “Parade Magazine.”
 
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“Even though circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, never lose sight of your goal. Instead, prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” -Mario Andretti
 
“Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.” -Mario Andretti
 
“Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” -Mario Andretti

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“Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it.” -Julie Andrews

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“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Maya Angelou
 
“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can’t practice any other virtue with consistency.” -Maya Angelou 1928

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” -Maya Angelou
 
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage but one is born with potential. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou

“The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.” -Maya Angelou 1928

“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
 
Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Ann Johnson on 4 April 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She became a poet, a memoirist, a dancer, a producer, a playwright, a director, a teacher, an essayist, a singer, and an actress. Maya Angelou passed on at 86 years of age on 28 May 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.
 
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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” -Jean Anouilh
 
Jean Marie-Lucien-Pierre Anouilh was born in 1910. He was a French dramatist best known for his 1943 play, “Antigone,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical drama. Much of his work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Jean Marie-Lucien-Pierre Anouilh passed on in 1987.

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“Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.” -Robert Anthony
 
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony
 
“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.” -Robert Anthony
 
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.” -Robert Anthony
 
“What you can’t communicate runs your life.” -Robert Anthony
 
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” -Robert Anthony
 
“You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.” -Robert Anthony
 
“You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it.” -Robert Anthony
 
Robert Newton Anthony was born on 6 September 1916 in Orange, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became an organizational theorist, a professor of management control at Harvard Business School, a United States Assistant Secretary of Defense, and a writer. Robert Newton Anthony passed on at 90 years of age on 1 December 2006 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
 
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” -Susan B. Anthony
 
Susan Brownell Anthony, also known as Susan B. Anthony, was born on 15 February 1820. She became an advocate of women’s right to vote. Susan Brownell Anthony passed on at 86 years of age on 13 March 1906.
 
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“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” -Thomas Aquinas
 
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” -Thomas Aquinas

“There is nothing on this Earth more to be prized than true friendship.” -Thomas Aquinas

“To love is to will the good of the other.” -Thomas Aquinas: “Summa Theologica” (1265 - 1274)
 
Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy. He became a Roman Catholic priest and friar, a philosopher, and a theologian. Thomas Aquinas passed on in 1274.
 
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“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.” -Pietro Aretino
 
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“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.” -Aristophanes
 
Aristophanes was born in 444 B.C.E. Aristophanes passed on in 380 B.C.E.
 
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“Being in your own business is working 80 hours a week so that you can avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else.” -Ramona E. F. Arnett
 
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“Well, back to the old drawing board.” -Peter Arno
 
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Is it so small a thing,
To have enjoyed the Sun,
To have lived light in the Spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done?
-Matthew Arnold: “Empedocles on Etna”
 
Matthew Arnold was born on 24 December 1822 in Laleham, Staines, England. He was married to Frances Wightman in 1851. He became a Victorian poet, a literary critic, and a social reformer. Matthew Arnold passed on at 65 years of age on 15 April 1888 in Liverpool, England.
 
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“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” -Mary Kay Ash

“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
 
“Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.” -Mary Kay Ash

Mary Kay Ash was born as Mary Kathlyn Wagner in 1918 in Hot Wells, Texas, United States of America. She became a businesswoman, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Incorporated, and a writer. Mary Kay Ash passed on in 2001.
 
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“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” -Arthur Ashe

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe
 
Arthur Ashe was born in 1943. He became an American professional tennis player. Arthur Ashe passed on in 1993.
 
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“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” -Alan Ashley-Pitt
 
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“Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.” -Marvin J. Ashton: as quoted in ‘If Thou Endure It Well,’ published in “Ensign” (November 1984) magazine, page 22
 
“The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.” -Marvin J. Ashton

“Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
“We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.” -Marvin J. Ashton: Brigham Young University devotional
 
“What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.” -Marvin J. Ashton
 
“What we do with what happens to us is more important than what happens to us.” -Marvin J. Ashton

“Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.” -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 became a managing director of Latter-day Saints Social Services and was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1971 until his passing. Marvin Jeremy Ashton passed on in 1994.
 
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“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” -Herbert Henry Asquith
 
Herbert Henry Asquith was born in 1852. He became a prime minster of Great Britain (1908 - 1916). Herbert Henry Asquith passed on in 1928.
 
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“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” -Athenaeus (about C.E. 200)
 
“Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.” -Athenaeus (about C.E. 200)
 
Athenaeus of Naucratis was born in C.E. 170 in Naucratis. He was a grammarian and a rhetorician of ancient Greece. Athenaeus of Naucratis passed on in C.E. 223.
 
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“Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.” -Chet Atkins
 
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“There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live, and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.” -Edward Atkinson
 
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“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?” -Kate Atkinson
 
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“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.” -William Walker Atkinson
 
William Walker Atkinson, also known by the pseudonyms Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka, was born on 5 December 1862. Mental, physical, and financial ruin led him to discover the theories and philosophies found in his works. William Walker Atkinson passed on at 69 years of age on 22 November 1932.
 
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“15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.” -Charles Atlas
 
“Nobody picks on a strong man.” -Charles Atlas
 
Charles Atlas was born as Angelo Siciliano in 1892. Charles Atlas passed on in 1972.
 
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“All that we are not stares back at what we are.” -W. H. Auden
 
“You owe it to us all to get on with what you’re good at.” -W. H. Auden
 
Wystan Hugh Auden, also known as W. H. Auden, was born on 21 February 1907 in York, England. He was married to Erika Mann in 1935. He became a writer and a poet. He traveled extensively in Europe, Iceland, and China during the 1930’s. He fought in the Spanish Civil War. He became a naturalized American in 1938. Wystan Hugh Auden passed on at 66 years of age on 29 September 1973 in Vienna, Austria.
 
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“Just do what you do best.” -Red Auerbach
 
Red Auerbach was born in 1917. He was an American basketball coach. Red Auerbach passed on in 2006.
 
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“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
 
“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.” -Augustine of Hippo: as attributed in Thomas Fielding (John Wade): “Select Proverbs of All Nations” (1824) page 216
 
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, was born as Aurelius Augustine on C.E. 13 November 354 in Thagaste, Numidia (now Souk Ahras, Algeria). He became a Christian theologian, a writer, and a bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa (396 - 430). He is known for his works, “The Confessions of Saint Augustine” and “The City of God.” Augustine of Hippo passed on at 75 years of age on C.E. 28 August 430 in Hippo Regius, Numidia (now Annaba, Algeria).
 
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“Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.” -Norman R. Augustine
 
Norman Ralph Augustine was born in 1935.
 
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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” -Jane Austen
 
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” -Jane Austen
 
“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.” -Jane Austen

“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” -Jane Austen: “Sense and Sensibility” (1811)

“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

“Success supposes endeavor.” -Jane Austen
 
Jane Austen was born in 1775. She never married. She became an English novelist. Jane Austen passed on in 1817.
 
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“Fake it until you make it! When you’re feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside.” -Denise Austin
 
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“Chance favors those in motion.” -James H. Austin
 
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2/28/2020

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“Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.” -Maltbie D. Babcock
 
Maltbie Davenport Babcock was born on 3 August 1858 in Syracuse, New York, United States of America. He became a preacher and a writer. He is known as the creator of the hymn, “This is My Father’s World.” Maltbie Davenport Babcock passed on at 42 years of age on 18 May 1901.
 
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“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” -Roger Ward Babson

“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” -Roger Ward Babson
 
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“Here’s how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off rain and snow, holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes painted different colors, with wheels on the corners.” -Richard Bach
 
“The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.” -Richard Bach

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.” -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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“The words of the world want to make sentences.” -Gaston Bachelard
 
Gaston Bachelard was born in 1884. He was a French scientist, philosopher, and literary theorist. Gaston Bachelard passed on in 1962.
 
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“Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.” -Frank Baer
 
“When you don’t have an education, you have to use your brains.” -Frank Baer
 
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“The essence of work is concentrated energy.” -Walter Bagehot
 
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We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts not breaths;
     In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives
     Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
-Philip James Bailey: “Festus,” ‘Scene, A Country Town’
 
Philip James Bailey was born on 22 April 1816 in Nottingham, England, as the only son of Thomas Bailey and his first wife, Mary Taylor. He became poet. He is known as the author of “Festus.” Philip James Bailey passed on in 1902.
 
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“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” -James Baldwin
 
“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.” -James Baldwin
 
James Baldwin was born in 1924. He was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. James Baldwin passed on in 1987.

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“If I had my life to live again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” -Tallulah Bankhead
 
Tallulah Bankhead was born in 1903. She was an American stage and screen actress, and a talk show host. Tallulah Bankhead passed on in 1968.
 
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“No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.” -Roger Bannister
 
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” -Roger Bannister
 
Roger Bannister is the first person recorded to have broken the four-minute time for running a mile (1952).
 
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“The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object and pursue it for life.” -Anna Letitia (Aiken) Barbauld
 
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“We can wear flat shoes now and be fat.” -Ann Barbour (1996), commenting about an agreement on working conditions
 
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“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.” -Ethel Barrymore
 
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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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“Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.” -Elias R. Beadle
 
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“Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong they ask, ‘Is this thing still flying?’ If the answer is yes, then there’s no immediate danger, no need to overreact.” -Alan L. Bean
 
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“Appreciation is the memory of the heart.” -Bill Beattie
 
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“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” -James Beatty
 
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“Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.” -John Beecher
 
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“She was one of the people who say, ‘I don’t know anything about music really, but I know what I like.’” -Max Beerbohm
 
Henry Maximilian ‘Max’ Beerbohm was born in 1872. He became an artist, a book illustrator, a caricaturist, a satirist, and a writer. Henry Maximilian ‘Max’ Beerbohm passed on in 1956.
 
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“To find fulfillment . . . don’t exist with life - embrace it.” -Jim Beggs
 
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“One is successful just in the sincere attempt to become successful.” -Rick Beneteau
 
“You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a fall.” -Rick Beneteau

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“Life is rather like a tin of sardines; we’re all of us looking for the key.” -Alan Bennett

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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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“Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.” -Warren G. Bennis
 
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” -Warren G. Bennis
 
Warren G. Bennis was born in 1925. He is an American writer and sociologist.
 
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“To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” - Henri L. Bergson

Henri Louis Bergson was born in 1859. Henri Louis Bergson passed on in 1941.
 
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“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.” -George Bernanos
 
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“What we love, we shall grow to resemble.” -Bernard of Clairvaux
 
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“It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.” -Sarah Bernhardt
 
Sarah Bernhardt was born on 22 or 23 October 1844. She was a French actress. Sarah Bernhardt passed on at 78 years of age on 26 March 1923.
 
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“Do what you know best; if you’re a runner, run, if you’re a bell, ring.” -Ignas Bernstein
 
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“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” -Mary Frances Berry
 
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“Thought creates character.” -Annie Besant
 
Annie Besant was born as Annie Wood on 1 October 1847 in Clapham, London, England. She was married to Frank Besant. She became a social reformer, a Theosophist, a writer, and an orator. She is known as the author of, “The Ancient Wisdom” (1897). Annie Besant passed on at 85 years of age on 20 September 1933 in Adyar, Madras Presidency, India.
 
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“His Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.” -Richard Bethell
 
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“Hear much; speak little.” -Bias of Priene
 
Bias of Priene was born at Priene. He was a Greek sage, reckoned among the Seven Sages of Greece.
 
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“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco: “Haven” (1951)
 
“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco: “Haven” (1951)
 
“To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco: “Haven” (1951)
 
Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco, also known as Elizabeth Bibesco and Elizabeth Asquith, was born as Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith on 26 February 1897. She was married to Prince Antoine Bibesco of Romania in 1919. She became a writer, a poet, and a socialite. Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco, passed on at 48 years of age on 7 April 1945 in Bucharest, Romania.
 
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“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.” -Jim Bishop
 
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“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all of mankind.” -Emily P. Bissell (born 1861)
 
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“Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.” -Claudia Black
 
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“People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the ‘lucky breaks’ theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck . . . The world is run by those who show up . . . not those who wait to be asked.” -Steve Blank
 
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
“If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906. He was a German Protestant theologian. Dietrich Bonhoeffer passed on in 1945.
 
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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
 
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was born on 1 October 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. He was a historian and writer. Daniel Joseph Boorstin passed on at 89 years of age on 28 February 2004 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
 
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“Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.” -Ruth Boorstin
 
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“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” -Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
 
Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was born on 27 September 1627 in Dijon, France. He became a Catholic Bishop, a theologian, a preacher, a writer, and a tutor. Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet passed on at 76 years of age on 12 April 1704 in Paris, France.
 
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“Few minds wear out; more rust out.” -Christian Nestell Bovee

“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.” -Christian Nestell Bovee

“When all else is lost the future still remains.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
 
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“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday, and celebrate just living.” -Amanda Bradley
 
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“We need to learn to set our course by the stars not by the lights of every passing ship.” -Omar Nelson Bradley (General)
 
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At breakfast a husband is cheery or blue
     At dinner he’s blue or he’s cheery
And when you’ve admitted these facts to be true
     You’ve mastered the whole subject, dearie
-Elspeth M. Bragdon
 
Elspeth MacDuffy Bragdon was born in 1897. She was married to Marshall H. Bragdon. Elspeth MacDuffy Bragdon passed on in 1980.
 
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“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy of social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” -Louis Brandeis: “Other People’s Money” (1933), page 62
 
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born in 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an associate justice (1916 - 1939) of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Louis Dembitz Brandeis passed on in 1941.
 
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“We may be blinded by our own perceived flaws, but those who love us have clearer vision.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
 
Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced ‘bon brannock’) was born on 5 May 1947 in Westbury, New York, United States of America. She is a writer and a professional speaker. Website: http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/.
 
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“As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.” -Bertolt Brecht: “Life of Galileo” (9 September 1943); type of work: historic drama
 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich ‘Bertolt’ Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire. He became a poet, a dramatist, and a theater director. Eugen Berthold Friedrich ‘Bertolt’ Brecht passed on at 58 years of age on 14 August 1956 in East Berlin, East Germany (now Berlin, Germany).
 
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“If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.” -Ted E. Brewerton
 
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“By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me.” -Ashleigh Brilliant

“The chief purpose of our organization is to perpetuate our organization.” -Ashleigh Brilliant

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant was born in 1933 in London, England. He became an American citizen in 1969. He is a writer and a syndicated cartoonist, and lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is known for his “Pot-Shots,” single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States in 1975.
 
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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” -Charlotte Brontë
 
Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816. She was married to Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854. She was a British novelist. Charlotte Brontë passed on in 1855.
 
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“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” -Phillips Brooks: as quoted in Elizabeth Peabody: “Primary Education” (1916), page 190
 
Phillips Brooks was born on 13 December 1835. He was an American clergyman and writer. He briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar, he is remembered on January 23. He is known as the lyricist of the Christmas carol, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Phillips Brooks passed on at 57 years of age on 23 January 1893.
 
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“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Richard Brooks
 
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“The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.” -Thomas Brooks
 
Thomas Benton Brooks was born in 1608. Thomas Benton Brooks passed on in 1680.
 
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“Act as if it were impossible to fail.” -Dorothea Broude
 
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“Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.” -Gene Brown
 
“The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren’t there.” -Gene Brown

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“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior

“Make it a habit to do nice things for people who’ll never find out.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior

“Never give up on anybody - miracles happen daily.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior
 
“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior

“Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior
 
Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior was born in 1940 in Tennessee, United States of America. He became a writer. He is known for his inspirational books “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (Volume 1) (1991) and “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (Volume 2) (1994)
 
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“Even as water carves monuments of stone so do our thoughts shape our character.” -Hugh B. Brown
 
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“Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.” -Les Brown
 
“Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” -Les Brown
 
“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” -Les Brown

“When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all.” -Les Brown
 
Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown was born on 17 February 1945. He is an American motivational speaker, writer, politician, and radio and television personality.
 
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“The world is measureless and vast. Live in it with curiosity and intensity.” -Margaret Wise Brown
 
Margaret Wise Brown was born in 1910. Margaret Wise Brown passed on in 1952.
 
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“Good judgment comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgment.” -Rita Mae Brown

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” -Rita Mae Brown
 
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay then it’s you.” -Rita Mae Brown
 
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“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
“Since when was genius found respectable?” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on 6 March 1806 in Kelloe, Durham, England. A spinal injury received in a fall from a pony prevented her from attending school. She was married to Robert Browning in 1846. She became a poet. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth Barrett Browning passed on at 55 years of age on 29 June 1861 in Florence, Kingdom of Italy.

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“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” -Robert Browning
 
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, ‘A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God:
See all not be afraid!’
-Robert Browning: “Rabbi ben Ezra” (1864)
 
“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” -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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“Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others.” -Bernard Mannes Baruch
 
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“Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.” -William Jennings Bryan
 
William Jennings Bryan was born on 19 March 1860 in Salem, Illinois, United States of America. He was a Christian Presbyterian by faith. He became a lawyer, an orator, a lecturer, and a politician. William Jennings Bryan passed on at 65 years of age on 26 July 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, United States of America.
 
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“If you believe in yourself, have dedication, pride and never quit, you will always be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.” -Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant
 
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“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” -Frank Buchman (similar quotation attributed to Mahatma Gandhi)
 
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“The best things in life aren’t things.” -Art Buchwald
 
Art Buchwald was born on 20 October 1925. He was an American journalist and humorist. Art Buchwald passed on at 81 years of age on 17 January 2007.
 
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“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)

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.” -Pearl S. Buck
 
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was born on 26 June 1892. She was an American writer of novels about life in China. As the daughter of missionaries, she spent most of her life through 1934 in China. She is known for her novel, “The Good Earth” (2 March 1931). Pearl Sydenstricker Buck passed on at 80 years of age on 6 March 1973.

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“There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.” -William M. Bulger

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.
-Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
 
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye looking on finds its own.” -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803. He was married to Rosina Doyle Wheeler in 1827. 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 Lytton Bulwer-Lytton passed on at 69 years of age on 18 January 1873.
 
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“Don’t believe the world owes you a living, the world owes you nothing - it was here first.” -Robert Jones Burdette
 
“There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry . . . Yesterday and Tomorrow.” -Robert Jones Burdette
 
Robert Jones Burdette was born on 30 July 1844 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a newspaper editor, a humorist, and a lecturer. Robert Jones Burdette passed on at 70 years of age on 19 November 1914 in Pasadena, California, United States of America.
 
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“If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.” -James Burgh
 
James Burgh was born in 1714. He was a Scottish writer. James Burgh passed on in 1775.
 
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“All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.” -Edmund Burke
 
“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 to 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

“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.” -Edmund Burke

“Education is the cheap defense of nations.” -Edmund Burke
 
“Never no never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.” -Edmund Burke
 
“Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.” -Edmund Burke

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

“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.” -Edmund Burke
 
“The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.” -Edmund Burke
 
“The more accurately we search into the human mind the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.” -Edmund Burke

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

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

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” -Edmund Burke: “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770)

Edmund Burke was born in 1729. He was an Irish-born British statesman, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and a writer. After moving to England, he served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain. Edmund Burke passed on in 1797.
 
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“It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett
 
“The world should be a little bit better because a man has lived.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett: “Little Lord Fauntleroy” (1886)
 
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was born on 24 November 1849 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. She emigrated with her family to the United States of America in 1865. She became a novelist and playwright, and is known as the author of “The Secret Garden” (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett passed on at 74 years of age on 29 October 1924 in Plandome Manor, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Beauty is also to be found in a day’s work.” -Mamie Sypert Burns
 
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“Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself: a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow’s mind and heart.” -Charles H. Burr
 
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“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.” -John Burroughs: “The Summit of the Years” (1913), ‘Preface’
 
“I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.” -John Burroughs
 
“Leap, and the net will appear.” -John Burroughs
 
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” -John Burroughs

“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” -John Burroughs
 
John Burroughs was born on 3 April 1837 on a family farm in the Catskill Mountains near Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, United States of America. He became a naturalist and a writer. John Burroughs passed on at 83 years of age on 29 March 1921 near Kingsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States of America.
 
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“Modern Man has lost the option of silence.” -William Burroughs
 
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“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.” -Leo Buscaglia
 
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” -Leo Buscaglia
 
“Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?” -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 became a school professor, a lecturer, and a writer of inspirational books. Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia passed on at 74 years of age on 11 June 1998 in Glenbrook, Nevada, United States of America.
 
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He who complies against his will
Is of the same opinion still.
-Samuel Butler (1612 or 1613 - 1680): “Hudibras,” Part 3, Canto 3, lines 555 and 556
 
Samuel Butler was born in 1612 or 1613 and baptized on 14 February 1613 in Strensham, Worchestershire, England. He became a poet and a satirist. He is known for his satirical poem “Hudibras” (1663 - 1678). Samuel Butler passed on at 67 years of age on 25 September 1680 in London, England.
 
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“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.” -Samuel Butler

“The course of true anything never does run smooth.” -Samuel Butler
 
Samuel Butler, also known as Samuel Butler the Younger to distinguish him from his grandfather who was also named Samuel Butler, was born on 4 December 1835 in Langar, Nottinghamshire, England. He was a novelist, an essayist, a critic, and a satirist. Samuel Butler passed on at 66 years of age on 18 June 1902 in London, England.
 
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“I’ve arrived, and to prove it, I’m here.” -Max Bygraves
 
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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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2/27/2020

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“Stride forward with a firm, steady step, knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will attain every aim.” -Eileen Caddy
 
“What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.” -Eileen Caddy
 
Eileen Caddy was born on 26 August 1917. She was a Scottish writer. She is known as the spiritual leader and founder of the Findhorn Foundation Community near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, Scotland. Eileen Caddy passed on at 89 years of age on 13 December 2006.
 
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“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.” -John Cage
 
“If someone says can’t, that shows you what to do.” -John Cage
 
John Milton Cage, Junior was born in 1912. John Milton Cage, Junior passed on in 1992.
 
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Herman Cain
 
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“Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were only walls.” -Joseph Campbell
 
“When you follow your bliss, and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it and doing what the push is out of your own existence, you follow that, and 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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“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.” -Albert Camus
 
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.” -Albert Camus
 
“I don’t want to be a genius, I have enough problems just trying to be a man.” -Albert Camus

“It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.” -Albert Camus
 
“Life is absurd.” -Albert Camus
 
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -Albert Camus
 
Albert Camus (ălꞋbərt kä-mōōꞋ/kä-müꞋ) was born on 7 November 1913 in Algeria. He became a French journalist, novelist, essayist, dramatist, and philosopher. He is the author of “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942), “The Rebel” (1951), and “The Fall” (1956). Albert Camus passed on at 46 years of age on 4 January 1960 in Villeblerin, France.
 
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“Be willing to learn each day from others.” -George I. Cannon
 
George Ivins Cannon was born on 9 March 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He was married to Isabel Hales. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. George Ivins Cannon passed on at 89 years of age on 4 August 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“A good sailor was never made on smooth seas.” -George Q. Cannon
 
George Quayle Cannon was born on 11 January 1827 in Liverpool, England. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. George Quayle Cannon passed on at 74 years of age on 12 April 1901 in Monterey, California, United States of America.
 
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“Abstract art is a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” -Al Capp (Alfred Gerald ‘Al’ Capp (1909 - 1979))

Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was born on 28 September 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. He lost his left leg to a trolley accident in August 1919, at 9 years of age. He was a cartoonist, satiric humorist, and a radio and television commentator; remembered for his comic strip “Li’l Abner.” He was married to Catherine Wingate Cameron Capp. Alfred Gerald Caplin passed on at 70 years of age on 5 November 1979 in South Hampton, New Hampshire, United States of America.
 
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“We are what we believe we are.” -Benjamin N. Cardozo
 
Benjamin N. Cardozo was born in 1870. He was an American jurist and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1932 - 1938). Benjamin N. Cardozo passed on in 1938.
 
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“Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against this principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.” -Richard Carlson: “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” (16 January 1997)
 
Richard Carlson was born on 16 May 1961 in Piedmont, California, United States of America. He became a psychotherapist, a writer, and a motivational speaker. He is known as the author of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It’s All Small Stuff” (1997). Richard Carlson passed on at 45 years of age on 13 December 2006 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
 
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“Only through dedicated work does a man fulfill himself.” -William S. Carlson
 
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“Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will have already become clearer.” -Thomas Carlyle

“Give us, O, give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” -Thomas Carlyle

“One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.” -Thomas Carlyle

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
“Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” -Thomas Carlyle
 
So here hath been dawning another blue day:
Think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Out of eternity this new day is born;
Into eternity at night ’twill return.
-Thomas Carlyle
 
“Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.” -Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795. He was married to Jane Welsh in 1826. He was a Scottish teacher, historian, essayist, social commentator, satirical writer, and political philosopher. Thomas Carlyle passed on in 1881.

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“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts, and your capital . . . The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.” -Andrew Carnegie
 
“Don’t be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It’s the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.” -Andrew Carnegie
 
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland. He became an American businessman and philanthropist. Andrew Carnegie passed on in 1919.
 
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“I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.” -Joyce Cary
 
“Went to a rubbish heap and got some evening newspapers. Shoved ’em in my boots. Shoved ’em up my trousers. Stuffed ’em down my waistcoat. As good as leather against an east wind. Thank God for the Press, the friend of the poor.” -Joyce Cary
 
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“All fat men are jolly, or if here and there a fat man doesn’t find himself so terribly jovial by nature, he is compelled to assume an air of jollity, because it is expected of him, sort of noblesse obese.” -Frank Case
 
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“No pressure, no diamonds.” -Mary Case
 
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“I’m just trying to matter.” -June Carter Cash
 
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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
 
“If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor; poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.” -Herbert N. Casson
 
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“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.” -Willa Cather
 
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. You learn the delivery of a part only before an audience.” -Willa Cather
 
“To fulfill the dreams of one’s youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.” -Willa Cather
 
Willa Sibert Cather was born as Wilella Sibert Cather on 7 December 1873 in Gore, Virginia, United States of America. She became a writer and achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including “O Pioneers!” (1913), “The Song of the Lark” (1915), and “My Ántonia” (1918). She also wrote “One of Ours,” a novel set during World War I. Willa Sibert Cather passed on at 73 years of age on 24 April 1947 in Manhattan, New York, United States of America.
 
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“I am one of the people who love the why of things.” -Catherine the Great
 
“I praise loudly. I blame softly.” -Catherine the Great: letter (23 August 1794); and in a conversation with Diderot: as quoted in Samuel Arthur Bent: “Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men” (1887)
 
Catherine the Great, also known as Catherine II, was born as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia. She became an Empress of Russia, and was the most renowned and the longest-ruling woman leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July 1762 until she passed on. Russia was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever, and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. Catherine the Great passed on at 67 years of age on 17 November 1796.
 
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“I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” -Edith Cavell
 
Edith Cavell was born in 1865. Edith Cavell passed on in 1915.
 
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“If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.” -Dick Cavett
 
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Some reckon time by stars,
And some by hours;
Some measure days by dreams
And some by flowers;
My heart alone records
My days and hours.
-Madison J. Cawein: “Kentucky Poems,” ‘Some Reckon Time by Stars’
 
Madison Julius Cawein (pronounced caw-wine) was born on 23 March 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America. He became a poet, and had 31 books of poems published. Madison Julius Cawein passed on at 49 years of age on 8 December 1914 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.
 
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“All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.” -Suzanne Chapin
 
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“Light gains make heavy purses.” -George Chapman
 

George Chapman was born in about 1559 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. He became a dramatist, a poet, and a translator. George Chapman passed on at about 75 years of age on 12 May 1634 in London, England. 
 
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“To my father, manual labor was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to say, it straightened out one’s thoughts.” -Mary Ellen Chase
 
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“I would rather that the people should wonder why I wasn’t President than why I am.” -Salmon P. Chase
 
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“Man is what he believes.” -Anton Chekhov
 
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in Taganrog, Russian Empire. He became a physician, a dramatist, a dramaturge, and a short story writer. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov passed on at 44 years of age on 15 July 1904 in Badenweiler, German Empire.
 
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“You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an 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 as Lydia Maria Francis on 11 February 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a novelist and a journalist. Lydia Maria Francis Child passed on at 78 years of age on 20 October 1880 in Wayland, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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A dog is not considered a good dog
     because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man
     because he is a good talker.
-Chuang-tzu (about 350 B.C.E.)
 
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“Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he’s too busy to enjoy.” -Frank A. Clark
 
“The more you learn, the more you earn.” -Frank A. Clark
 
“The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.” -Frank A. Clark
 
Frank Atherton Clark was born on 10 October 1911 in Elkhart, Iowa, United States of America. He became a newspaperman and a writer. He is remembered as the author of the book, “The Country Parson” (1 January 1964) and as the writer of one-liners for the “Country Parson” one-panel syndicated newspaper cartoon series with illustrations drawn initially by Wally Falk and later by Dennis Neal. Frank Atherton Clark passed on at 80 years of age on 11 December 1991 in Elkhart, Polk County, Iowa, United States of America.
 
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“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.” -Ramsey Clark: as quoted in the “New York Times” (2 October 1977) newspaper
 
“Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?” -Ramsey Clark
 
Ramsey Clark was born in 1927. He is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General.
 
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“I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.” -Tom C. Clark
 
Thomas Campbell Clark was born in 1899. He was an American lawyer, Attorney General, and Justice of the Supreme Court (1949 - 1967). Thomas Campbell Clark passed on in 1977.
 
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“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” -Albert Clarke
 
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“The only real problem in life is what to do next.” -Arthur C. Clarke
 
Arthur Charles Clarke was born on 16 December 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, England. He became a science fiction writer, science writer, undersea explorer, inventor, television series host, and futurist. He is known best for his short stories and novels, among them “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series “Mysterious World.” Arthur Charles Clarke passed on at 90 years of age on 19 March 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
 
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“Each man is the architect of his own fate.” -Appius Claudius
 
“Each man is the smith of his own fortune.” -Appius Claudius
 
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“The better we know each other, the more we love each other.” -Henry C. Clausen
 
“We have an American right to say: ‘I reject the welfare way to the lazy life and favor instead the work way to the good life.’” -Henry C. Clausen
 
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“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.” -Henry Clay: “The Great Compromise”
 
Henry Clay was born in 1777. He was an American politician. Henry Clay passed on in 1852.
 
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“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.” -William Cobbett
 
William Cobbett was born in 1763. He was an English reformer, a political writer, a writer on agriculture, and a traveler. He founded the “Weekly Political Register” (1802 - 1835) and “The Porcupine.” He became a bookseller in Philadelphia and in London. William Cobbett passed on in 1835.
 
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“And, when you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” -Paulo Coelho: “The Alchemist” (1988)
 
“You cannot avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.” -Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho was born in 1947. He is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
 
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“We don’t have to be successful, only valuable. We don’t have to make money, only a difference, and particularly in the lives society counts least and puts last.” -William Sloane Coffin, Junior: “Credo” (2004), ‘Faith, Hope, Love’
 
William Sloane Coffin, Junior was born on 1 June 1924 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church, and received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. He became a chaplain of Yale University and served as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City. William Sloane Coffin, Junior passed on at 81 years of age on 12 April 2006 in Strafford, Vermont, United States of America.
 
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“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
 
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” -Robert Collier

“You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.” -Robert Collier
 
Robert Collier was born on 19 April 1885 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, as a cousin of Robert Joseph Collier (1876 - 1918). He became a writer and a motivational speaker. Robert Collier passed on in 1950.
 
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“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.” -C. C. Colton
 
Charles Caleb Colton, also known as C. C. Colton, was born in 1780. He was an English writer, clergyman, and merchant. Charles Caleb Colton passed on in 1832.
 
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“The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.” -Dale Rex Coman
 
Dale Rex Coman was born on 22 February 1906 in Connecticut, United States of America. He was married to Milna Coman. He became a college professor and a writer. His works include the books, “Pleasant River” (1966) and “The Endless Adventure” (1972). Dale Rex Coman passed on at 87 years of age on 23 April 1993 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America.
 
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“When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.” -Nadia Comaneci
 
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“Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be writing about you.” -Cyril Connolly

“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 Vernon Connolly was born in 1903. He was an English writer. Cyril Vernon Connolly passed on in 1974.
 
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“Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich.” -Russell Conwell
 
“Ninety-eight out of one-hundred of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.” -Russell Conwell
 
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” -Russell Conwell

Russell Herman Conwell was born on 15 February 1843 in South Worthington, Massachusetts, United States of America. He converted from atheism to Christianity while a soldier in the American Civil War, and later became a lawyer, a Baptist minister, a writer, an orator (professional speaker), and a philanthropist. He was a pastor of the Baptist Temple, author of the well-known book, “Acres of Diamonds” (1890), and founder of Temple University in Philadelphia. Russell Herman Conwell passed on at 82 years of age on 6 December 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“She is one of my best friends. Why, I’ve known her ever since we were both the same age.” -Galen Cooper
 
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“There’s no need to hurry, yet no time to lose.” -Bessie Copage
 
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“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” -E. Joseph Cossman (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
 
“The greatest power is often simple patience.” -E. Joseph Cossman
 
Eli Joseph Cossman, also known as E. Joseph Cossman, was born on 13 April 1918. He was an American inventor, businessman, and writer. He is known as the creator of the ant farm. Eli Joseph Cossman passed on at 84 years of age on 7 December 2002 in Palm Springs, California, United States of America.
 
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Thus hand in hand through life we’ll go;
Its checker’d paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we’ll tread.
-Nathaniel Cotton
 
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“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” -Margaret Cousins
 
Margaret Cousins was an Irish suffragist.
 
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“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
 
“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” -Stephen Covey
 
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” -Stephen Covey
 
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” -Stephen Covey
 
Stephen Richards Covey was born on 24 October 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He became a writer, a professional speaker, and a sales trainer; remembered as the author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” (15 August 1989). Stephen Richards Covey passed on at 79 years of age on 16 July 2012 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America.
 
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And differing judgments serve but to declare
That truth lies somewhere if we knew but where.
-William Cowper
 
“The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow; and when we lie down at night, we may safely say to most of our troubles, ‘Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.’” -William Cowper
 
Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavor.
-William Cowper
 
William Cowper was born in 1731 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. His mother passed on when he was 6 years of age, so he was sent away from home to a boarding school, where he suffered so much from the cruelty of a bigger boy that he was obliged to leave that school for another. He studied at Westminster School with the intention of pursuing a career in law. When the first of many struggles with mental infirmity interfered with these plans, he found strength in Evangelical Christianity. Collaborating with John Newton, he became the foremost composer of eighteenth-century hymns, and was also a poet known for poems including “Yardley-Oak” and “The Task.” Mr. Cowper was a nephew of the poet Judith Madan. William Cowper passed on in 1800.
 
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“Eliminate the word can’t and you’ll be amazed at what you can do.” -Billy Cox
 
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“Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things. Go out and be challenged.” -Andrew Creighton
 
Andrew Creighton is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States of America.
 
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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.” -Marie Curie
 
“The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace.” -Marie Curie
 
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.” -Marie Curie
 
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, also known as Marie Curie, was born on 7 November 1867. She was a French-Polish physicist and chemist. She is known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Marie Sklodowska-Curie passed on at 66 years of age on 4 July 1934.

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“The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?” -Matt Cutts

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Quotations by Authors Da through Dz

2/26/2020

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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
 
Anthony J. D’Angelo is an American writer.
 
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“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” -Charles Darwin
 
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” -Charles Darwin
 
Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809. He was married to Emma Wedgwood (1808 - 1896) in 1839. He was an English naturalist, geologist, writer, and proponent of the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin passed on in 1882.
 
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“The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness, and courtesy will carry a young man farther than mere smartness.” -Henry P. Daveson
 
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“If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.” -Clinton Davidson
 
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“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.” -Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
 
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“Difficulties were opportunities inside out, she assured herself . . .” -Gwen Davis: “Marriage” (1981)
 
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“Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.” -Humphrey Davy
 
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“People say, what is the sense of our small effort. They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel helpless. There’s too much work to do.” -Dorothy Day
 
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“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” -Barbara De Angelis
 
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” -Barbara De Angelis
 
Barbara De Angelis was born on 4 March 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is a lecturer, a writer, and a television personality.
 
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“Genius is naught but a greater aptitude for patience.” -Comte de Buffon

“Style is the man.” -Comte de Buffon

Comte de Buffon was born as Georges Louis Leclerc on 7 September 1707 in Montbard, Burgundy, France. He became a naturalist and a mathematician. Comte de Buffon passed on at 80 years of age on 16 April 1788 in Paris, France.
 
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“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” -Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat: as attributed in “The Guernsey Magazine” (November 1877)
 
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, was born on 17 September 1743 in Ribemont, France. He became a philosopher, a mathematician, and a political scientist. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, passed on at 50 years of age on 28 March 1794 in Bourg-la-Reine, France.
 
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“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born on 1 May 1881 in Orcines, Auvergne, France. He became an idealist philosopher and a Jesuit priest, and trained as a paleontologist and a geologist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Point and further developed Vladimir Vernadsky’s concept of noosphere. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin passed on at 74 years of age on 10 April 1955 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” -Baron Pierre De Coubertin
 
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“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” -Jean de la Bruyère
 
Jean de La Bruyère was born 16 August 1645 in Paris, Kingdom of France. He became an essayist and a moralist. Jean de La Bruyère passed on at 50 years of age on 11 May 1696 in Versailles, Kingdom of France.
 
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“By the work one knows the workman.” -Jean de La Fontaine

“This beast is very wicked; when attacked, it defends itself.” -Jean de La Fontaine
 
Jean de La Fontaine was born in 1621. He was a French poet. Jean de La Fontaine passed on in 1695.
 
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“Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.” -François de La Rochefoucauld: “Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales”
 
“To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.” -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“We should not judge of a man’s merit by his good qualities but by the use he can make of them.” -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
 
François de La Rochefoucauld, also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld and François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac, was born on 15 September 1613 in rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, France. He was a soldier and a writer of maxims and memoirs. François de La Rochefoucauld passed on at 66 years of age on 17 March 1680 in Paris, France.
 
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“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” -Pierre Simon de Laplace
 
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“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” -Guy de Maupassant
 
Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850. Guy de Maupassant passed on in 1893.
 
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“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” -Agnes de Mille
 
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“There are a million ways to lose a work day but not even a single way to get one back.” -Tom DeMarco
 
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“Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” -Cecil B. DeMille
 
Cecil Blount DeMille was born on 12 August 1881 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a silent movie director and a filmmaker. Cecil Blount DeMille passed on at 77 years of age on 21 January 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.” - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
 
“Saying is one thing and doing is another.” -Michel de Montaigne: “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (March 1580), Book 2, chapter 31

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on 28 February 1533. He was a French moralist and essayist. He is known for his book of essays, “Essais” (English: “Essays”). Michel Eyquem de Montaigne passed on at 58 years of age on 13 September 1592.
 
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“Here I possessed nothing in the world. I was no more than a mortal strayed between sand and stars, conscious of the single blessing of breathing. And yet I discovered myself filled with dreams.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “The Little Prince” (1943)
 
“Life is what tends toward the improbable.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
“When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“When you want to build a ship, do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions, or to distribute the work, but rather teach them longing for the endless immensity of the sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, commonly known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon, France. He became an aviator and a novelist. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry passed on at 44 years of age on 31 July 1944 when his plane went down over the ocean south of Marseille, France.
 
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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” -Francis de Sales
 
Francis de Sales was born on 21 August 1567. He became a Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva. He is known for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the “Introduction to the Devout Life” and the “Treatise on the Love of God.” Francis de Sales passed away on 28 December 1622.
 
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“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” -Madame de Staël
 
“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.” -Madame de Staël
 
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (maiden name Necker), also known simply as Madame de Staël, was born on 22 April 1766 in Paris, France. She became a writer. Germaine de Staël passed on at 51 years of age on 14 July 1817 in Paris, France.
 
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In holy music’s golden speech
Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere

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

“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.” -Eugene V. Debs
 
Eugene Victor Debs was born in 1855. Eugene Victor Debs passed on in 1926.
 
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“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.” -Democritus
 
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.” -Democritus
 
Democritus of Abdera was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. Democritus of Abdera passed on in about 370 B.C.E.
 
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“Whatever the problem we have in our life, someone has faced it and overcome it.” -David DeNotaris
 
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“Who will bell the cat?” -Eustache Deschamps
 
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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” -Richard M. DeVos
 
Richard Marvin Devos, Senior was born in 1926. Richard Marvin DeVos, Senior passed on in 2018.
 
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“A champion is a loser who gets up and tries once again.” -Dennis DeYoung
 
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“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish but you only spend it once.” -Lillian Dickson
 
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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.” -Denis Diderot: “Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu” (1745)
 
Denis Diderot was born in 1713. He was a French writer, art critic, and philosopher. He is known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the “Encyclopédie,” along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert. Denis Diderot passed on in 1784.
 
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“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, and you don’t do it, it won’t happen.” -Joe DiMaggio (1914 - 1999)
 
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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” -Ernest Dimnet
 
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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 Christenze von Blixen-Finecke, who was born in 1885. She was a Danish writer. Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke passed on in 1962.
 
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“Nurture your minds with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“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)

“Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” -Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli was born on 21 December 1804 in Bloomsbury, London, England. He was married to Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis in 1839. He became a British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874 - 1880), a statesman, and a novelist. Benjamin Disraeli passed on at 76 years of age on 19 April 1881 in Mayfair, London, England.
 
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“The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.” -Isaac D’Israeli
 
Isaac D’Israeli was born in 1766. He was an English writer and the father of Benjamin Disraeli. Isaac D’Israeli passed on in 1848.
 
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“The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.” -Dorothy Dix

“You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.” -Dorothy Dix
 
Dorothy Dix is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, who was born on 18 November 1861 in Woodstock, Tennessee, United States of America. She became an advice columnists and a journalist. Dorothy Dix passed on at 90 years of age on 16 December 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
 
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“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne.
 
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” -John Donne: “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (1624), ‘Meditation XVII’
 
John Donne (jŏn dŭn) was born in about June 1572 in England. He was married to Ann More in 1601. He became a soldier, a courtier, a poet, a satirist, and a dean of Saint Paul’s. He became a Catholic priest and later converted to the Anglican faith. He is known as the author of “Divine Poems” (1607) and “A Hymn to God the Father” (1623). John Donne passed on at about 58 years of age on 31 March 1631.
 
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“Love all God’s creatures, the animals, the plants. Love everything to perceive the divine mystery in all.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on 11 November 1821 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He became a novelist, a short story writer, a journalist, and a publisher and editor of magazines. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky passed on at 59 years of age on 9 February 1881.
 
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“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” -Norman Douglas: “South Wind” (1917), chapter 6
 
George Norman ‘Norman’ Douglas was born on 8 December 1868 in Thüringen, Austria-Hungary. He became a British novelist, travel writer, and essayist. He is known for his novel, “South Wind” (1917). George Norman ‘Norman’ Douglas passed on at 83 years of age on 7 February 1952 in Capri, Italy.
 
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.  It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” -William O. Douglas
 
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” -William O. Douglas

William Orville Douglas was born in 1898. He was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. William Orville Douglas passed on in 1980.
 
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“A gentleman will not insult me and no man not a gentleman can insult me.” -Frederick Douglass

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” -Frederick Douglass
 
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass
 
Frederick Douglass is a pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who was born in 1817 in the United States of America. He became a social reformer, a professional speaker, and a writer. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey passed on in 1895.
 
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.” -Robert Downey, Junior
 
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“Contentment is the greatest wealth.” -Thomas Draxe
 
Thomas Draxe was born on an unknown date. He was an English Christian Puritan clergyman and writer. Thomas Draxe passed away on or shortly before 29 January 1618.
 
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“A greater poverty than that caused by money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the goodness, the beauty, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.” -Thomas Dreier
 
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“The ideal day never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.” -Horatio Dresser
 
Horatio Willis Dresser was born on 15 January 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine, United States of America as a son of Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. He became a New Thought religious leader and a writer. He is known for his books including, “The Power of Silence” (1895). Horatio Willis Dresser passed on at 88 years of age on 30 March 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.” -Peter F. Drucker
 
“We can’t make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.” -Peter F. Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born on 19 November 1909 in Austria. He became an American management consultant, an educator, and a writer. Peter Ferdinand Drucker passed on at 85 years of age on 11 November 2005.
 
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“Happiness . . . consists in giving, and in serving, others.” -Henry Drummond
 
“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can do.” -Henry Drummond

“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.” -Henry Drummond

“You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” -Henry Drummond
 
Henry Drummond was born in 1851. He was a Scottish evangelist, writer, and lecturer. He is known for his book, “The Greatest Thing in the World,” which encourages people to follow God’s two great commandments: to love God and to love each other. Henry Drummond passed on in 1897.
 
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Happy the man and happy he alone
He who can call today his own:
He who secure within can say
Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today.
-John Dryden

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

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“Setting goals is basically, planning celibrations.” -Drew Dudley

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

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“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities which we usually reserve for war.” -John Foster Dulles
 
“The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.” -John Foster Dulles

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

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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you!” -Isadora Duncan: as quoted in Franklin Rosemont, editor: “Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan” (2 June 1981)
 
Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan was born on 27 May 1877 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a dancer and lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until she passed on. Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan passed on at 50 years of age on 14 September 1927 in Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
 
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“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
 
“Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
 
Finley Peter Dunne was born as simply Peter Dunne on 10 July 1867 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, later adding his mother’s maiden name to his, calling himself Peter Finley Dunne, and eventually reversing the order and calling himself Finley Peter Dunne. He became a journalist and a humorist. Finley Peter Dunne passed on at 68 years of age on 24 April 1936 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.” -Lewis Dunning
 
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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -William C. Durant
 
William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant was born on 8 December 1861. He became a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, and created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars. He was a co-founder of General Motors with Frederic L. Smith, and of Chevrolet with Louis Chevrolet. He also founded Frigidaire. William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant passed on at 85 years of age on 18 March 1947.
 
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“It is an error to suppose that books have no influence; it is a slow influence, like flowing water carving out a canyon, but it tells more and more with every year; and no one can pass an hour a day in the society of sages and heroes without being lifted up a notch or two by the company he has kept.” -Will Durant
 
“My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus . . . Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.” -Will Durant
 
“Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.” -Will Durant
 
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.” -Will Durant: “The Story of Civilization,” Volume II, “The Life of Greece” (1939), Chapter XII: Work and Wealth in Athens, page 277
 
“Sixty years ago, I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant: as quoted in ‘Books: The Great Gadfly’ published in “Time” (8 October 1965) magazine (a book review of Will and Ariel Durant: “The Age of Voltaire” (1935))
 
“The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.” -Will Durant
 
“Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.” -Will Durant
 
“When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.” -Will Durant
 
Ariel Durant was born as Chaya Kaufman on 10 May 1898 in Khmel’nyts’ka, Ukraine. She became an American historian and writer, and co-author of several written works with her husband William James ‘Will’ Durant. Ariel Durant passed on at 83 years of age on 25 October 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
 
William James ‘Will’ Durant was born on 5 November 1885 in North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a historian and a writer. He is known for his works that include, “The Story of Philosophy,” and “The Story of Civilization.” He co-authored several written works with his wife Ariel Durant. William James ‘Will’ Durant passed on at 96 years of age on 7 November 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
 
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“There is still today and tomorrow fresh with dreams: Life never grows old.” -Rita Duskin
 
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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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“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.” - Wayne Dyer
 
“Surround yourself with people who are doers!” -Wayne Dyer

“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” -Wayne Dyer

Wayne Walter Dyer was born in 1940. He is an American psychotherapist, writer, and lecturer.
 
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2/25/2020

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“Every day may not be good . . . but there’s something good in every day.” -Alice Morse Earle
 
Alice Morse Earle was born in 1851. She became a historian and a writer. Alice Morse Earle passed on in 1911.
 
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“You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.” -Dale Earnhardt (1951 - 2001)
 
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“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” -Max Eastman
 
Max Eastman was born in 1883. Max Eastman passed on in 1969.
 
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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban: speech (16 December 1970) in London, England
 
Abba Eban was born as Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban on 2 February 1915 in Cape Town, Union of South Africa. He became an Israeli diplomat and 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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“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” -Sue Atchley Ebaugh
 
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“I don’t think anybody yet has invented a pastime that’s as much fun or keeps you as young as a good job.” -Frederick Hudson Ecker
 
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“I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,
044,717,914,527,116,709 ,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the Universe and the same number of electrons.” -Arthur Stanley Eddington

“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”
 
“We used to think that if we knew one we knew two because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and.’” -Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington was born on 28 December 1882 in Kendal, Westmorland, England (now Kendel, Cumbria, England). He became an astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician. The Eddington Limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, and the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, are named in his honor. Arthur Stanley Eddington passed on at 61 years of age on 22 November 1944 in Cambridge, England.
 
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“The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.” -Mary Baker Eddy
 
Mary Baker Eddy was born in 1821. She became the founder of Christian Science, a religious movement in the United States of America. 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.” 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
 
“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
“Service is what life is all about.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make, which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” -Marian Wright Edelman
 
Marian Wright Edelman was born in 1937. She is a President of the Children’s Defense Fund.
 
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I will follow the upward road today;
I will keep my face to the light.
I will think high thoughts as I go my way;
I will do what I know is right.
I will look for the flowers by the side of the road;
I will laugh and love and be strong.
I will try to lighten another’s load this day as I fare along.
-Mary S. Edgar
 
Mary Susannah Edgar was born on 23 May 1889 in Sundridge, Ontario, Canada. She became a writer, a hymnist, and a summer camp operator. Mary Susannah Edgar passed on at 84 years of age on 17 September 1973 in Ontario, Canada.
 
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“If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.” -Bob Edwards
 
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“The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.” -LaVell Edwards

“Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.” -LaVell Edwards
 
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“Anxiety is the rust of life destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.” -Tryon Edwards

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.” -Tryon Edwards
 
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.” -Tryon Edwards
 
“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith and inconsistent with it. But all science in fact rests on a basis of faith for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws, a thing which can never be demonstrated.” -Tryon Edwards
 
“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” -Tryon Edwards
 
“To be good we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.” -Tryon Edwards
 
Tryon Edwards was born on 7 August 1809 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. He was a writer, a theologian, and a minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut (1845 - 1857), after having served in Rochester, New York. Tryon Edwards passed on at 84 years of age on 4 January 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
 
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“Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.” -Ilya Ehrenburg
 
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“It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science, which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the Universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption.” -Loren C. Eiseley: “Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It” (1958)
 
Loren Corey Eiseley was born on 3 September 1907 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America. He became an anthropologist, a teacher, a philosopher, and a writer. Loren Corey Eiseley passed on at 69 years of age on 9 July 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” -T. Harv Eker
 
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” -T. Harv Eker
 
“The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.” -T. Harv Eker
 
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“If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” -Leon Eldred
 
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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
 
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T. S. Eliot
 
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot: “Four Quartets” (1943), ‘Little Gidding,’ part V
 
Thomas Stearns Eliot (tŏm’ǝs stûrnz ěl’ē-ǝt), also known as T. S. Eliot, was born in 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. He took up permanent residence in England in 1914, and became a British subject in 1927. He became an editor, a literary critic, a dramatist, and a poet. He is known as the author of, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), “The Wasteland” (1922), and “The Four Quartets” (1936 - 1942). Thomas Stearns Eliot passed on in 1965.

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“I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, I may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.” -Elizabeth I: lines written in a copy of the “Epistles of Saint Paul” (about August 1576)
 
Elizabeth I was born in 1533. She became a queen of England and Ireland (1558 - 1603). Elizabeth I passed on in 1603.
 
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“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.” -Mandie Ellingson
 
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“It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.” -Elisabeth Elliot
 
Elisabeth Elliot is a writer.
 
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“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” -Walter Elliott: as quoted in “The Spiritual Life: Doctrine and Practice of Christian Perfection” (1918)
 
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -Albert Ellis
 
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“There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.” -Alice Thomas Ellis
 
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” -Havelock Ellis
 
Henry Havelock Ellis was born on 2 February 1859 in Croydon, Surrey, England. He became an essayist and a psychologist. Henry Havelock Ellis passed on at 80 years of age on 8 July 1939 in Hintlesham, Suffolk, England.
 
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.” -Harlan Ellison (similar quotation attributed to Louis Pasteur)
 
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“It is not half as important to burn the midnight oil as it is to be awake in the daytime.” -E. W. Elmore
 
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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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“I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.” -Nathanael Emmons
 
Nathanael Emmons was born in 1745. His first name is sometimes spelled as Nathaniel. Nathanael Emmons passed on in 1840.
 
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“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.” -Ted Engstrom
 
Theodore Wilhelm ‘Ted’ Engstrom was born in 1916. As an evangelical leader and author, he was known in part for instructing churches, parachurch ministries, and other non-profit organizations how to apply business concepts and achieve financial viability. Mr. Engstrom was one of the founding architects of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, and head of Youth for Christ and World Vision International. Theodore Wilhelm ‘Ted’ Engstrom passed on in 2006.
 
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” -Epicurus

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” -Epicurus

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” -Epicurus
 
Epicurus was born in 341 B.C.E. He became a philosopher of ancient Greece. He founded the school of philosophy known as Epicureanism. Epicurus passed on in 270 B.C.E.
 
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“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.” -Desiderius Erasmus
 
“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
 
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” -Desiderius Erasmus
 
“Out of sight, out of mind.” -Desiderius Erasmus: “Adagia” (1500)
 
“Prevention is better than cure.” - Desiderius Erasmus

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.” -Desiderius Erasmus
 
“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, a theologian, and a social reformer. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus 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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“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.” -Paul Erlich
 
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“There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.” -John Erskine
 
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“My work is a game, a very serious game.” -M. C. Escher
 
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“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” -attributed to Euclid
 
Euclid was born in 325 B.C.E. in ancient Greece. He became a mathematician. Euclid passed on in 265 B.C.E.
 
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“Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.” -Bergen Evans
 
Bergen Baldwin Evans was born on 19 September 1904 in Franklin, Ohio, United States of America. He became a lexicographer, a teacher of English, and a television show host. Bergen Baldwin Evans passed on at 73 years of age on 4 February 1978 in Highland Park, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“Be able to disagree without being disagreeable.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“Happiness mainly depends on man’s ability to work and the way in which he does it.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“If we don’t change direction we will arrive at where we are going.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“Perhaps any of us could get along with perfect people. But our task is to get along with imperfect people.” -Richard L. Evans

“The past is to learn from and not to live in.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” -Richard L. Evans

“Things I don’t understand don’t destroy my faith in the things I do understand.” -Richard L. Evans

“Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes.” -Richard L. Evans
 
“We must not let the things we can’t do keep us from doing the things we can do.” -Richard L. Evans
 
Richard Louis Evans was born in 1906. He became a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the president of Rotary International. Mr. Evans was the writer, producer, and announcer of “Music and the Spoken Word” for forty-one years. Richard Louis Evans passed on in 1971.
 
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“Indeed, education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” -Edward Everet
 
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“Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I’ve done. But I’m telling you honestly that it doesn’t surprise me. I knew I could do it.” -Patrick Ewing
 
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“Success has a simple formula: do your best and people may like it.” -Sam Ewing
 
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“It is the doing, not just the knowing that counts.” -Henry B. Eyring
 
Henry Bennion Eyring was born on 31 May 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. He is an educator, a writer, and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
 
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2/24/2020

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“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.” -Frederick William Faber
 
Frederick William Faber was born in 1814. He was an English hymn writer and theologian. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism, and became a member of its priesthood. His is known for the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” (1849). Frederick William Faber passed on in 1863.
 
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“Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.” -Jean Henri Fabre
 
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“Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known when disgrace is that the thing should exist.” -William Falconer
 
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“Don’t tell me about your effort. Show me your results.” -Tim Fargo
 
“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. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” -William Faulkner: speech at the Nobel Prize Banquet after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature (10 December 1950)

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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“One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.” -James E. Faust

“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences . . . Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.” -James E. Faust: ‘Will I Be Happy,’ published in “Ensign” (May 1987) magazine, page 80
 
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“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.” -William Feather

“Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got.” -William Feather: as attributed in “Forbes” (1984)
 
“Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.” -William Feather
 
William Arthur Feather was born on 25 August 1889 in Jamestown, New York, United States of America. He was married to Ruth Elizabeth Presley on 30 October 1912. He became a publisher and a writer. He spent much of his life in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, where he owned a printing business and published, “The William Feather Magazine.” William Arthur Feather passed on at 91 years of age on 7 January 1981.
 
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“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived (oh, not deprived but rather underprivileged). Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” -Jules Feiffer
 
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don’t want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.” -Federico Fellini
 
“It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive.” -Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was born in 1920. He was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and film maker. He is known for his film “8½” (1963). Federico Fellini passed on in 1993.
 
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“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.” -Owen Feltham

Owen Feltham was born in 1602. He was an English essayist. Owen Feltham passed on in 1668.
 
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Your body cannot heal without play.
Your mind cannot heal without laughter.
Your soul cannot heal without joy.
-Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
 
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“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” -Tim Ferriss
 
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“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” -Tina Fey
 
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“I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things.” -Richard Feynman
 
“The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be.’” -Richard Feynman
 
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” -Richard Feynman
 
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school . . . It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don’t understand it. You see my physics students don’t understand it . . . That is because I don’t understand it. Nobody does.” -Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman was born in 1918. He was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. Richard Phillips Feynman passed on in 1988.
 
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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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“Good enough never is.” -Debbi Fields
 
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.” -Debbie Fields
 
Debbie Fields was born in 1956. She is the founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
 
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“We are making stupendous effort to extend the physical and economic life of the many. But of what high consequence is that extension unless the activity of the mind is also extended unless we strive ever to live better rather than simply to make a better living?” -John H. Finley
 
John H. Finley is a doctor.
 
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“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” -Doug Firebaugh
 
“Goals are simply an image in your mind that need to be crystallized on paper by your hand . . . and embraced with your heart . . .” -Doug Firebaugh
 
“The future looks bright . . . for those who choose to shine . . . and become a star.” -Doug Firebaugh
 
Doug Firebaugh was born on 9 June 1968 in Birmingham, Michigan, United States of America.
 
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“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.” -John Fischer
 
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“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” -Ella Fitzgerald
 
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
 
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on 25 April 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, United States of America. She became an American jazz singer. Ella Jane Fitzgerald passed on at 79 years of age on 15 June 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America.
 
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“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
“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 not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald  
 
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, also known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He was married to Zelda Sayre in 1920. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a screenwriter. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald passed on at 44 years of age on 21 December 1940 in Hollywood, California, United States of America.

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“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.” -Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald was born as Zelda Sayre in 1900. Zelda Fitzgerald passed on in 1948.
 
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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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“It takes courage to live, courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.” -Jerome P. Fleishman
 
“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.” -Jerome P. Fleishman
 
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“The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.” -Peggy Fleming
 
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“Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.” -Colin Fletcher: “The Complete Walker III”
 
“Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.” -Colin Fletcher: “The Complete Walker III”
 
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“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.” -Ferdinand Foch
 
Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch was born on 2 October 1851 in Tarbes, France. He was a military leader during World War 1. Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch passed on at 77 years of age on 20 March 1929 in Paris, France.
 
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“It’s never too late, never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” -Jane Fonda
 
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“By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.” -Malcolm S. Forbes

“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
 
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
 
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was born on 19 August 1919. He became the publisher of “Forbes” magazine, which was founded by his father, Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ ‘B. C.’ Forbes. Later, the magazine was run by Malcolm’s son, Steve Forbes. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes passed on at 70 years of age on 24 February 1990.
 
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“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.” -Harrison Ford
 
Harrison Ford was born in 1942. He became 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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“I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.” -George Foreman
 
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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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“I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick: “Riverside Sermons”
 
“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”
 
Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on 24 May 1878 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America. He became a Protestant Christian minister in the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches and a writer. Harry Emerson Fosdick passed on at 91 years of age on 5 October 1969 in Bronxville, New York, United States of America.
 
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“If you could only love enough, you would be the most powerful person in the world.” -Emmet Fox
 
Emmett Fox was born in 1886. He became a scientist, a philosopher, and a writer. Emmett Fox passed on in 1951.
 
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“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” -Michael J. Fox
 
Michael J. Fox is a pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox, who was born on 9 June 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an American actor, writer, and producer.
 
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“If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” -Anatole France
 
Anatole France is a pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault, who was born in 1844 in Paris, France. He became a journalist, a novelist, a poet, and a critic. Jacques Anatole François Thibault passed on in 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire.
 
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“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
 
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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“It simply is not true that war never settles anything.” -Felix Frankfurter

“There can be no security where there is fear.” -Felix Frankfurter
 
Felix Frankfurter was born in 1882. Felix Frankfurter passed on in 1965.
 
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” -Viktor E. Frankl
 
“It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” -Viktor E. 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 not meant to be easy.” -Malcolm Fraser
 
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“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” -Grant Frazier
 
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“My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.” -Frederick II
 
Frederick II, also known as Frederick the Great, was born in 1712. He was a king of Prussia (1740 - 1786). Frederick II passed on in 1786.
 
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“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.” -Arthur Freed
 
I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain;
What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.
-Arthur Freed
 
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“The long-range solution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” -Milton Friedman: as quoted in “US News & World Report” (March 1977)
 
Milton Friedman was born in 1912. He was an American economist. Milton Friedman passed on in 2006.
 
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“If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won’t even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know.” -Patricia Fripp
 
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 “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” -Erich Fromm
 
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” -Erich Fromm
 
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm
 
Erich Seligmann Fromm was born on 23 March 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. He became a philosopher, a social psychologist, and a psychoanalyst. Erich Seligmann Fromm passed on at 79 years of age on 18 March 1980 in Muralto, Switzerland.
 
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“Don’t aim for success. If you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost

David Paradine Frost was born on 7 April 1939 in Tenterden, England. He became a television host, a media personality, a journalist, a comedian, and a writer. He is known as the host of the satirical television program “That Was the Week That Was” starting in 1962. David Paradine Frost passed on at 74 years of age on 31 August 2013 aboard the cruise ship MS Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean Sea.
 
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.” -James Froude
 
James Anthony Froude was born in 1818. James Anthony Froude passed on in 1894.
 
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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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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” -Margaret Fuller
 
“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: “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843” (1844)
 
Sarah Margaret ‘Margaret’ Fuller was born on 23 May 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Sarah Margaret ‘Margaret’ Fuller passed on at 40 years of age on 19 July 1850 in the sinking of the oceangoing ship ‘Elizabeth’ off the coast of Fire Island, New York, United States of America.
 
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“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.” -Thomas Fuller

“My dame feeds her hens with mere thanks and they laid no eggs.” -Thomas Fuller
 
Thomas Fuller was born in 1608 in Northamptonshire, England. He became 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 you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
 
“It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2916
 
Thomas Fuller was born on 24 June 1654 in Rosehill, Sussex, England. He became a physician, a preacher, and an adage collector. Thomas Fuller passed on at 80 years of age on 17 September 1734.
 
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“It’s an extra dividend when you like the girl you’re in love with.” -Clark Gable
 
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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
 
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born as Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, England. He is a writer and a voice actor.
 
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
 
“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
 
“People are the common denominator of progress. So . . . no improvement is possible with unimproved people and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development . . . But we are coming to realize . . . that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
 
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
 
“When people are the least sure they are often the most dogmatic.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
 
“You will find that the State is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly does small things badly too.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
 
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“The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart.” -Susan Gale
 
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“Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” -Galen
 
Aelius Galenus, also known as Claudius Galenus and Galen of Pergamon or simply as Galen, was born in C.E. 129 in Pergamon, Turkey. He became a Greek physician, a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer on medicine and philosophy, in the Roman Empire. Galen passed on in C.E. 199 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.” -Robert C. Gallagher
 
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
 
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“One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one’s deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.” -Paul Gallico
 
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“There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened and a wounded heart.” -Marguerite Gardiner
 
Marguerite Gardiner was born as Margaret Power in 1789 in County Tipperary, Ireland. She became a novelist, a journalist, and a literary hostess. Marguerite Gardiner passed on in 1849.
 
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“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” -Ava Gardner: as quoted in Roland Flamini: “Ava” (1983), chapter 8
 
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“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” -John W. Gardner
 
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.” -John W. Gardner
 
“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
 
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh: “Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe” (23 May 2006) page 269
 
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner
 
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner: “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961), page 86
 
“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
 
“We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.” -John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in “Self-Renewal” (1964)
 
John William Gardner was born on 8 October 1912 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a government administrator. He is known as the founder of Independent Sector and the watchdog group Common Cause. John William Gardner passed on at 89 years of age on 16 February 2002 in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
 
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“Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” -Richard Garnett
 
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“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” -Kim Garst
 
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” -Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
 
“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.” - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. He became a mathematician and a physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss passed on at 77 years of age on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, Germany.
 
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“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” -Shakti Gawain
 
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“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look and I have never met a steadily logical person.” -Martha Gellhorn
 
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold Geneen
 
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” -Harold Geneen
 
Harold Geneen was born in 1910. Harold Geneen passed on in 1997.
 
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“True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.” -George Gershwin

Ira Gershwin was born in 1896. He was an American lyricist. Ira Gershwin passed on in 1983.
 
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“Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.” -J. Paul Getty

“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being conformist.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.” -J. Paul Getty
 
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty
 
Jean Paul Getty was born on 15 December 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He became an industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company, and an art collector. Jean Paul Getty passed on at 83 years of age on 6 June 1976 in Surrey, England.
 
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“In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbors of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defense of the Christians, and scattered among their enemies the seeds of division and decay.” -Edward Gibbon: “Decline and Fall,” Chapter 52
 
“It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764 as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.” -Edward Gibbon
 
Edward Gibbon was born on 8 May 1737 in Putney, Surrey, England. He became a historian, a writer, and a Member of Parliament. He is known as the author of the six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1776 - 1789). Edward Gibbon passed on at 56 years of age on 16 January 1794 in London, England.
 
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“No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.” -James Gibbons
 
“There must be no tampering with the delicate machinery by which religious liberty and equality are secured, and no fostering of any spirit which would tend to destroy that machinery.” -James Gibbons
 
James Gibbons was born on 23 July 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He served as the Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He became a cardinal in 1886. James Gibbons passed on at 86 years of age on 24 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
 
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“It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.” -Philip Gibbs
 
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“Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
 
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran
 
“There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran
 
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883. He emigrated to the United States of America with his family in 1895. He never married. He became a Lebanese-born American artist, poet, novelist, and philosopher. Kahlil Gibran passed on in 1931.
 
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
 
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“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” -André Gide
 
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” -André Gide
 
“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide
 
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide: “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
 
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, an essayist, a dramatist, and a critic. André Paul Guillaume Gide passed on at 81 years of age on 19 February 1951 in Paris, France.
 
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“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
 
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He became an English dramatist, a librettist, a writer of comic and satirical poetry, and an illustrator. He is known for the fourteen comic operas he produced in collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include “H. M. S. Pinafore” (25 May 1878) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (31 December 1879), and The Mikado (14 March 1885). William Schwenck Gilbert passed on in 1911.

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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.” -Virginia Gildersleeve
 
Virginia Gildersleeve was born in 1877. Virginia Gildersleeve passed on in 1965.
 
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“The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.” -Jerry Gillies

“Confront your fears, listen them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.” -Jerry Gillies
 
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.” -Dorothy Gilman

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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Gilmore
 
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg
 
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926. Allen Ginsberg passed on in 1997.
 
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Bhagavad Gita (about 400 B.C.E.)
 
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“People aren’t afraid of failure, they just don’t know how to succeed.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
 
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“Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.” -Rudolph Giuliani
 
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“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” -Earle J. Glade
 
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures, and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
 
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
 
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. He became a politician. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four times (1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; and 1892 - 1894). Mr. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister, at 84 years of age when he resigned for the last time. He had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. William Ewart Gladstone passed on at 88 years of age on 19 May 1898 in Hawarden Castle, Wales.
 
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“No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.” -Ellen Glasgow
 
“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” -Ellen Glasgow: “The Shadowy Third” (1923)
 
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” -Ellen Glasgow
 
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22 April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. She never married and never had children. She became a novelist. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow passed on at 72 years of age on 21 November 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
 
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“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow
 
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
 
“The truth will ouch.” -Arnold H. Glasow
 
Arnold Henry Glasow was born on 2 July 1905 in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was married to Vera Glasow (maiden name Eade (1903 - 2012)). He became a writer and a businessman. He created a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses, and which they could then customize to become their own in-house publications. He was a regular contributor to the various humor sections of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine. He is known for his book, “Glasow’s Gloombusters” (28 June 1995). Arnold Henry Glasow passed on at 94 years of age on 4 November 1999 in Freeport, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” -John Glenn
 
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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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“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
 
“Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
 
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“Romance is about the little things.” -Gregory J. Godeck
 
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“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” -Gail Godwin
 
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” -Gail Godwin
 
Gail Kathleen Godwin was born on 18 June 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. She is avid swimmer and an Episcopalian by faith. She became a novelist and a short story writer.
 
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“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavor to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.” -William Godwin
 
William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. He became a social philosopher, a political journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a publisher of children’s books. William Godwin passed on at 80 years of age on 7 April 1836 in London, England.
 
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed.” -Ray Goforth
 
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” -Arthur Golden
 
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” -William Golding
 
William Golding was born in 1911. He was an English novelist. William Golding passed on in 1993.
 
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“Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Traveler: Or, A Prospect of Society” (1764)
 
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
 
“He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.” -Oliver Goldsmith
 
“I always get the better when I argue alone.” -Oliver Goldsmith

“I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.” -Oliver Goldsmith
 
“I was tired of being always wise.” -Oliver Goldsmith
 
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith

“The greatest object in the Universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity: yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)

Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was disfigured by smallpox at 8 years of age. He was an Anglican by faith. He became a physician, a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist. He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, including, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.

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“A hospital is no place to be sick.” -Samuel Goldwyn

“Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.” -Samuel Goldwyn
 
“I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.” -Samuel Goldwyn
 
“Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.” -Samuel Goldwyn

“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.” -Samuel Goldwyn

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“Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” -Paul Goodman
 
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman: “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
 
Paul Goodman was born on 9 September 1911. He was an American writer and poet. Paul Goodman passed on at 60 years of age on 2 August 1972.
 
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -Nadine Gordimer
 
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. She was Jewish by faith. She became a novelist and a writer. Nadine Gordimer passed on at 90 years of age on 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
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“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.” -Elizabeth Goudge
 
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“We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.” -Billy Graham
 
William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior was born in 1918. He ws an American Christian evangelist. William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior passed on in 2018.
 
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“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -Katharine Graham
 
Katharine Graham was born in 1917. She was an American newspaper executive. Katharine Graham passed on in 2001.
 
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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.” -Martha Graham
 
Martha Graham was born in 1894. She was an American dancer and choreographer. Martha Graham passed on in 1991.
 
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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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“He can who thinks he can.” -Heber J. Grant

“If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.” -Heber J. Grant
 
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying to the best of our ability to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.” -Heber J. Grant
 
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
 
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things . . . Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-to-day events, sunshine on the field, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” -David Grayson
 
“Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.” -David Grayson

David Grayson is a pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker, was born on 17 April 1870 in Lansing, Michigan, United States of America. He became a historian and biographer. David Grayson passed on at 76 years of age on 12 July 1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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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 darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.” -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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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” -Sidney Greenberg
 
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“Make the commitment to gradually improve both your exercise performance and your eating habits. Take your time, what’s the hurry? View it as a journey to improve yourself. Although this is difficult, focus on the journey, not the end result.” -Bob Greene (Robert Bernard ‘Bob’ Greene, Junior (born 1947))
 
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“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.” -Graham Greene
 
Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene was born in 1904. He was an English writer of more than 25 novels. Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene passed on in 1991.
 
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.” -Gregory I
 
Gregory I, also known as Pope Gregory I and Gregory the Great, was born in C.E. 540. Gregory I passed on in C.E. 604.
 
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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” -Wilfred Grenfell
 
Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865. Wilfred Grenfell passed on in 1940.
 
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” -Marilyn Grey
 
Marilyn Grey is a motivational speaker
 
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. Griswold
 
Alfred Whitney Griswold.
 
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“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” -Matthew Keith Groves
 
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“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” -Robert Grudin
 
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
 
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2/22/2020

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“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.” -Ken Hakuta
 
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“Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease.” -Thomas C. Haliburton: “Sam Slick’s Wise Saws and Modern Instances” (1853)
 
Thomas C. Haliburton was born in 1796. He 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 on 1 July 1574 in Leicestershire, Kingdom of England. He was married to Elizabeth Winiffe in 1603. He became a Christian bishop, a moral philosopher, a poet, and a satirist. Joseph Hall passed on at 82 years of age on 8 September 1656 in Heigham, Norfolk, England.
 
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“I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.” -Fitz-Greene Halleck
 
Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in 1790. Fitz-Greene Halleck passed on in 1867.
 
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“Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off goals.” -William F. Halsey

“There aren’t any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.” -William F. Halsey
 
William Frederick ‘Bull’ Halsey, Junior was born in 1882. He became an American naval commander and led campaigns in the Pacific during World War 2. William Frederick ‘Bull’ Halsey, Junior passed on in 1959.
 
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“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.” -Alexander Hamilton: letter (29 December 1802) to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
 
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” -Alexander Hamilton (28 July 1788): as quoted in “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution” (1827 -1830) [work commonly known as “Elliot’s Debates”], volume 2, page 364
 
“It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.” -Alexander Hamilton: letter (11 November 1794) to George Washington
 
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” -Alexander Hamilton
 
“We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.” -Alexander Hamilton: as quoted in Burton Egbert Stevenson: “The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern” (1935)
 
Alexander Hamilton was born on 11 January 1755 or 1757 in Charlestown, Nevis, British West Indies. He became a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, a major author of the “Federalist Papers,” and the first secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789 - 1795). Alexander Hamilton passed on at about 47 or 49 years of age on 12 July 1804 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Education is being caught up into the expanding universe of thought.” -Edith Hamilton
 
Edith Hamilton was born in 1867. Edith Hamilton passed on in 1963.
 
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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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A bell’s not a bell until you ring it
     A song’s not a song until you sing it
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
     Love isn’t love until you give it away!
-Oscar Hammerstein
 
“If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?” -Oscar Hammerstein
 
Oscar Hammerstein II was born in 1895. He was an American songwriter. Oscar Hammerstein II passed on in 1960.
 
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“Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” -Lorraine Hansberry
 
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“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.” -Helen Hanson
 
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“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.” -Michael Hanson
 
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“It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.” -G. H. Hardy
 
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“Your possessions should set you free like a boat or a pair of hiking boots. If you work for your possessions and they don’t set you free, what are you working for?” -Billy Harris
 
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“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.” -Corra Harris
 
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“A winner paces himself; a loser has only two speeds: hysterical and lethargic.” -Sydney J. Harris
 
“Happiness is a direction and not a place.” -Sydney J. Harris
 
“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.” -Sydney J. Harris
 
“The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.” -Sydney J. Harris
 
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” -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 drama critic. 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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“I’m like a child, trying to do everything, say everything, and be everything all at once.” -John Hartford
 
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“Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets.” -Henry S. Haskins: as published in Albert Jay Nock, editor: “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), page 77
 
“Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?” -Henry S. Haskins: as published in Albert Jay Nock, editor: “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), page 132
 
Henry Stanley Haskins was born in 1875 in New Jersey, United States of America. He became a stockbroker and man of letters. His aphorisms were edited and published anonymously as “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), with an introduction by Albert Jay Nock. Henry Stanley Haskins passed on in 1957 in Vermont, United States of America.
 
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“What this country needs is more parents who do not expect the school and the church to assume the major responsibility for the rearing of their children.” -Mrs. Norman Hastings
 
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“3 Billion B.C.: The Earth is a swirling ball of flaming gases. Fishing is extremely poor, especially in August.” -Cliff Hauptman: “The Complete History of Fishing”
 
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“Positive thinking is reacting positively to a negative situation.” -Bill Havens
 
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“Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, or even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.” -Paul Hawken
 
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“My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the Universe why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” -Stephen William Hawking

“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.” -Stephen William Hawking
 
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“Friends are the sunshine of life.” -John Hay
 
John Milton Hay was born in 1838. He was an American statesman, diplomat, and writer. John Milton Hay passed on in 1905.
 
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“I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.” -S. I. Hayakawa
 
“In a real sense people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” -S. I. Hayakawa
 
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, also known as S. I. Hayakawa, was born on 18 July 1906 in Vancouver, 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 at 85 years of age on 27 February 1992 in Greenbrae, California, United States of America.
 
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“If you want to receive a great deal, you first have to give a great deal.” -R. A. Hayward
 
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“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.” -William Hazlitt
 
“There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it.” -William Hazlitt
 
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.” -William Hazlitt
 
“Well, I’ve had a happy life.” -William Hazlitt: as quoted in William Carew Hazlitt: “Memoirs of William Hazlitt: With Portions of His Correspondence” (1867)
 
William Hazlitt was born in 1778. He was married to Sarah Stoddart in 1808. He became an English painter, essayist, literary critic, drama critic, art critic, and social commentator. William Hazlitt passed on in 1830.

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“All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.” -Lafcadio Hearn

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“Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.” -William Randolph Hearst
 
William Randolph Hearst was born in 1863. He became a publisher. William Randolph Hearst passed on in 1951.
 
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“Seeing is believing.” -Manfred Von Heimendahl
 
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“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” -Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in 1907. He was an American science fiction writer. Robert Anson Heinlein passed on in 1988.
 
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“We spend billions of dollars trying to understand the origins of the Universe, while we still don’t understand the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or peace.” -D. Helbing
 
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“We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us and from which at various times and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances we might be sure of drawing some comfort guidance and sympathy.” -Arthur Helps
 
Arthur Helps was born in 1813 in Streatham, South London, England. He became a writer and a clerk for the Privy Council. Arthur Helps passed on in 1875.
 
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
“Courage is grace under pressure.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Ernest Hemingway
 
“Live life to the fullest.” -Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America. He became a journalist and a writer. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. An additional three of his novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Ernest Miller Hemingway passed on at 61 years of age on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum Idaho, United States of America.
 
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“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” -Mrs. Ernest Hemingway
 
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Nelson Henderson
 
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“Remember, one treats others with courtesy and respect not because they are gentlemen or gentlewomen, but because you are.” -Garth Henrichs
 
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“After a storm comes a calm.” -Matthew Henry
 
“Saying and doing are two things.” -Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry was born in 1662. He became a writer. Matthew Henry passed on in 1714.
 
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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” -Audrey Hepburn
 
Audrey Hepburn-Ruston was born on 4 May 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She became a British actress, dancer, and model. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston passed on at 63 years of age on 20 January 1993 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
 
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“A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees farther of the two.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“Although the Sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 322
 
“An idle youth, a needy age.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“Be useful where thou livest.” -George Herbert: “The Church Porch,” line 325
 
“For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 495
 
“Good words are worth much, and cost little.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 155
 
“Half the world knows not how the other half lives.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 901
 
“He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 305
 
“He thinkes not well that thinkes not againe.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 830

“Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 533

“Light burthens long borne growe heavie.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), number 15
 
“None knows the weight of another’s burden.” -George Herbert
 
“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” -George Herbert

“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert: “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651)
 
“The shortest answer is doing.” -George Herbert

George Herbert was born on 3 April 1593 at Montgomery Castle in Wales. He became an Anglican priest, a theologian, a religious poet, and an orator. George Herbert passed on at 39 years of age on 1 March 1633 in Bemerton, Wiltshire, England.
 
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“The term used to describe them (Ulster Scots) was rednecks, a Scots border term meaning Presbyterians.” -Arthur L. Herman: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” (November 2001)
 
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“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” -Herodotus
 
Herodotus was born in about 484 B.C.E. in Halicarnassus, Caria, Asia Minor, Persian Empire. He was a writer, historian, and traveler of ancient Greece. Herodotus passed on at about 60 years of age in about 425 B.C.E. possibly in Thurii, Calabria or in Pella, Macedon.
 
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“A lot of men think that if they smile for a second somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.” -Don Herold
 
“Very few people look the part and are it too.” -Don Herold
 
Don Herold was born in 1889. He became a writer, a cartoonist, and a humorist. Don Herold passed on in 1966.
 
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I do love I know not what;
Sometimes this and sometimes that.
-Robert Herrick
 
Robert Herrick was born in 1591. Robert Herrick passed on in 1674.
 
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“Just to be is a blessing.” -Abraham Heschel
 
“There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel
 
Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in 1907. He was a Jewish rabbi, theologian, and philosopher. Abraham Joshua Heschel passed on in 1972.
 
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“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.” -Thor Heyerdahl
 
Thor Heyerdahl was born in 6 October 1914 in Larvik, Norway. He became an archeologist, an ethnologist, and an adventurer. He is known for organizing and leading the Kon-Tiki (1947) and Ra (1969 - 1970) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Thor Heyerdahl passed on at 87 years of age on 18 April 2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy.
 
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“A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“A penny for your thoughts.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“Beggars shouldn’t be choosers.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“Better late than never.” -John Heywood “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“Half a loaf is better than none.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“Haste makes waste.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“Look before you leap.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
“Many small make a great.” -John Heywood
 
“No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)

“One good turn deserves another.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)

“One swallow maketh not Summer.” -John Heywood
 
“When the iron is hot strike.” -John Heywood
 
“When the Sun shineth, make hay.” -John Heywood: “The Proverbs of John Heywood” (1546)
 
John Heywood was born in about 1497. He was an English dramatist and poet. John Heywood passed on in 1580.
 
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“We are 90 percent alike, all we peoples, and 10 percent different. The trouble is that we forget the 90 percent and remember the 10 percent when we criticize others.” -Charles Higham
 
Charles Frederick Higham was born on 17 January 1876 in Walthamstow, London, England. He became a publicist, an advertising consultant, and a politician. Charles Frederick Higham passed on at 62 years of age on 24 December 1938 in Godstone, Surrey, England.
 
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“A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.” -Cullen Hightower
 
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“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill
 
Aaron Hill was born in 1685. Aaron Hill passed on in 1750.
 
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“If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.” -Etty Hillesum
 
Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum was born in 1914. Her letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943, describe her life as a Jewish woman in Amsterdam during the German occupation. Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum passed on in 1943. Her letters were published in 1981.
 
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“The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.” -Gordon B. Hinckley: General Conference Report (October 1973), page 106
 
Gordon Bitner Hinckley was born on 23 June 1910. He became a writer and the longest presiding President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church, from 12 March 1995 until his passing. Gordon Bitner Hinckley passed on at 97 years of age on 27 January 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“A day will never be any more than what you make of it. Practice being a doer!” -Josh Hinds
 
Josh Stephen Hinds was born in 1973. His website is www.JoshHinds.com.
 
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“Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.” -W. D. Hoard
 
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“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.” -T. F. Hodge
 
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“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” -Ralph Hodgson
 
Ralph Hodgson was born in 1871. He was an American poet. Ralph Hodgson passed on in 1962.
 
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“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.” -Eric Hoffer

“We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.” -Eric Hoffer
 
Eric Hoffer was born in 1902. He became an American longshoreman, then turned moral and social philosopher and writer. He was the author of ten books, including his first book, “The True Believer” (1951). Eric Hoffer passed on in 1983.
 
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“I realize that there are other people who have days stranger than mine. I don’t know them. I don’t know anyone who knows them. But I’m sure they’re out there. Somewhere.” -Sarah Hoffman
 
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“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.” -L. Thomas Holdcroft
 
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“It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he makes of what he knows; not a question of what he has acquired, and how he has been trained, but of what he is, and what he can do.” -J. G. Holland
 
“Joys divided are increased.” -J. G. Holland
 
Josiah Gilbert Holland, also known by the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb, was born on 24 July 1819 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a doctor, but left the medical field to become a school superintendent, a novelist, an essayist, and a poet. He was a co-founder in 1870 with Roswell Smith, and editor, of “Scribner’s Monthly” magazine. He wrote the lyrics to the Methodist hymn “There’s a Song in the Air.” Josiah Gilbert Holland passed on at 62 years of age on 12 October 1881 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.” -William E. Holler
 
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“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.” -Ernest Holmes
 
You are more than you appear to be -
Life is greater than you have ever known it -
The best is yet to come.
-Ernest Holmes
 
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes was born in 1887. He became an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of the Religious Science movement and a part of the New Thought movement. He is the author of “The Science of Mind” and numerous other metaphysical books, and the founder of “Science of Mind” magazine, in continuous publication since 1927. His books remain in print, and the principles he taught as “Science of Mind” have inspired and influenced many generations. Mr. Holmes had previously studied another New Thought teaching, Divine Science, and was an ordained Divine Science Minister. Ernest Shurtleff Holmes passed on in 1960.
 
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“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy but force.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior

“It is now the moment when, by common consent, we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior
 
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior

“The prize of the general is not a bigger tent but command.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior was born on 8 March 1841. He served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was a professor of law at the Harvard Law School, of which he was an alumnus. He was also a legal historian and an associate justice of the American Supreme Court (1902 - 1932). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior passed on at 93 years of age on 6 March 1935.
 
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“Genius does not herd with genius.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior: “The Professor at the Breakfast-Table” (1860), Chapter XII
 
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior: “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (1858)
 
“Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior: “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (1858)
 
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
 
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior: “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table”
 
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation, evermore!” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior: “Voyage of the Good Ship Union” (1862) poem

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
 
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
 
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
 
“The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior was born on 29 August 1809. He was married to Amelia Jackson in 1840. He was an American physician, novelist, biographer, essayist, and poet. He is remembered for his books on medicine and surgery. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior passed on at 85 years of age on 7 October 1894.
 
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“The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.” -Henry Home
 
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“When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.” -Richard Hooker
 
Richard Hooker was born in about 1554. He became a priest and theologian in the Church of England. Richard Hooker passed on in 1600.
 
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“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. Lena Horne passed on in 2010.
 
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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 on 10 May 1937 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She is a writer and a lecturer. She and her husband Robert Masters co-founded The Foundation for Mind Research.
 
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“Life is like a blanket, too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder, but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.” -Marion Howard
 
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“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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“The way to be nothing is to do nothing.” -Nathaniel Howe
 
Nathaniel Howe was born in 1764. He was an American minister. Nathaniel Howe passed on in 1837.
 
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“He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.” -Mary Howitt
 
Mary Howitt was born in 1799. Mary Howitt passed on in 1888.
 
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“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard

“Th’ feller that calls you ‘brother’ generally wants something that don’t belong to him.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“Th’ only way t’ entertain some folks is t’ listen t’ ’em.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard: “New Sayings by Abe Martin and Velma’s Vow: A Gripping Love Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut” (1916)
 
“There’s another advantage of being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
“We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.” -Frank McKinney Hubbard
 
Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard was born on 1 September 1868 in Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Josephine Jackson in 1905. He became a journalist, a cartoonist, a humorist, and a political commentator. He is known for his “Abe Martin of Brown County” newspaper cartoon (1904 - 1932). Frank McKinney ‘Kin’ Hubbard passed on at 62 years of age on 26 December 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
 
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“Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.” -M. King Hubbert
 
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“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” -Victor Hugo
 
“Inspiration and genius - one and the same.” -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
 
“Where the telescope ends the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?” -Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo was born on 26 February 1802 in Besançon, France. He became a visual artist, a romantic poet, an essayist, a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), and a statesman. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. He is known for his novels “Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1831; originally published as “Notre-Dame de Paris”) and “Les Misérables” (1862). His volumes of poetry include “Les Contemplations” and “La Légende des siècles.” Victor Marie Hugo passed on at 83 years of age on 22 May 1885 in Paris, France.
 
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“May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie
 
Jonathan Lockwood Huie was born on 28 June 1945.
 
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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” -Zora Neale Hurston
 
Zora Neale Hurston was born on 7 January 1891. She was an American dramatist. Zora Neale Hurston passed on at 69 years of age on 28 January 1960.
 
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” -Aldous Huxley

“The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.” -Aldous Huxley

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” -Aldous Huxley

“What we perceive and understand depends upon what we are.” -Aldous Huxley: “Ends and Means” (1937), ‘Beliefs’
 
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on 26 July 1894. He was a son of Leonard Huxley and a brother of Julian Huxley. He became a novelist, an essayist, a magazine editor, a short story writer, a movie script writer, a critic, and a poet. His novels include, “Crome Yellow” (1921), “Point Counter Point” (1928), and “After Many a Summer” (1939). He moved to the United States of America in 1937. Aldous Leonard Huxley passed on at 69 years of age on 22 November 1963 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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2/21/2020

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“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” -Lee Iacocca
 
“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: People, product and profits. People always come first.” -Lee Iacocca

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” -Lee Iacocca
 
“People want economy and they’ll pay any price to get it.” -Lee Iacocca
 
Lee Iacocca was born in 1924.
 
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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 man should never put on his good trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom or truth.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.” -Henrik Ibsen
 
“To live is to war with trolls.” -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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“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is in the end more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the Universe.” -Daisaku Ikeda
 
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“Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright Moon.” -Ikkyu
 
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“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.” -Ivan Illich
 
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“Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them.” -Roger G. Imhoff
 
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“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” -William R. Inge
 
“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.” -William R. Inge
 
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.” -William Ralph Inge

“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.” -William R. Inge
 
“The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.” -William R. Inge
 
“There are two kinds of fools. One says, ‘This is old, therefore it is good.’ The other says, ‘This is new, therefore it is better.’” -William R. Inge
 
“We are what we love.” -William R. Inge
 
William Ralph Inge was born on 6 June 1860 in Crayke, Yorkshire, England. He became an Anglican, or Church of England, priest; professor of divinity at Cambridge University; a Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London (1911 - 1934) where he became known as Dean Inge; and a writer of more than 35 books. William Ralph Inge passed on at 93 years of age on 26 February 1954 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England.
 
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“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” -Robert Green Ingersoll

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” -Robert G. Ingersoll: in a Decoration Day address (1822)

“It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and courage to stand by his own convictions.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
 
“The greatest test of courage on Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
 
“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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“He who will not apply himself to business eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging - or else is wholly void of reason.” -Ischomachus
 
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“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.” -Washington Irving

“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.” -Washington Irving
 
“Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.” -Washington Irving
 
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, ’tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.” -Washington Irving: “A Knickerbocker’s History of New York” (1809), book II, chapter 3
 
Washington Irving was born in 1783. He was an American historian, biographer, essayist, writer of travel books, and ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He is best known for his short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” which appear in his book “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” (July 1820). Washington Irving passed on in 1859.
 
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“Do not be afraid to be amazing.” -Andy Offutt Irwin
 
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“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” -Doug Ivester
 
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“This is a time when we need faith, faith of a very definite and positive nature, the faith that will lead us to optimism. I believe that pessimism grows out of a lack of faith.” -Antoine R. Ivins
 
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2/20/2020

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“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry James
 
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” -Henry James

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.” -Henry James

Henry James, Junior was born on 15 April 1843 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was a son of Henry James, Senior, and a brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. Henry James never married. He became a novelist and a critic. He spent much of his career in Great Britain, where he became naturalized in 1915. Henry James, Junior passed on at 72 years of age on 28 February 1916 in London, England.
 
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“It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.” -P. D. James
 
P. D. James was born in 1920.
 
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” -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)
 
“Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” -William James
 
“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 Principles of Psychology” (1890), Chapter 22
 
“The deepest principle in Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.” -William James: letter (1896) to students who had sent to him a plant for Easter

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” -William James
 
“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be loss, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, us all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.” -William James

William James was born on 11 January 1842 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He was trained as a medical doctor, and became a pioneering psychologist and a philosopher. He wrote many influential books on the topics of psychology and mysticism. He was a founder of the American Society for Psychical Research, as well as a champion of alternative approaches to healing, and he challenged his professional colleagues not to let a narrow mindset prevent an honest appraisal of those phenomena. William James passed on at 68 years of age on 26 August 1910 in Chocorua, New Hampshire, United States of America.
 
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“A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
 
“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
 
“Genius and sunshine have this in common, that they are the two most precious gifts of Heaven to Earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.” -Anna Brownell Jameson
 
Anna Brownell Jameson was born 17 May 1794. She became a British writer known for her books “Characteristics of Women” and “Sacred and Legendary Art” and for her travel memoirs including “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.” Anna Brownell Jameson passed on at 65 years of age on 17 March 1860
 
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“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” -P. D. James
 
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“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” -Storm Jameson
 
Storm Jameson is a pseudonym of Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman, who was born as Margaret Ethel James on 8 January 1891 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman passed on at 95 years of age on 30 September 1986 in Cambridge, England.
 
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“When the going gets tough look for an easier way.” -Frank Jaster
 
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“For the industrious-thinking right-living young man the future holds as many rewards as any period in our nation’s history.” -William M. Jeffers
 
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“Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.” -Francis Jeffrey
 
Francis Jeffrey was born in 1773 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a literary critic. Francis Jeffrey passed on in 1850.
 
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“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” -Mae Jemison
 
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“The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice if its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free-fall.” -Holman W. Jenkins, Junior
 
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“Us country women make good wives. No matter what happens, we’ve seen worse.” -Keith Jennison
 
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“The scars of others should teach us caution.” -Jerome: letter 54
 
Jerome was born as Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus in about C.E. 347 on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in Stridon, Dalmatia. In C.E. 365, he was baptized and converted to Catholicism. At this time, he began his study of theology and the Hebrew language. Jerome then lived for many years as a hermit in the desert of Syria, where he continued his studies. He is known for his translation of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin, known as the “Latin Vulgate.” Eventually, Jerome returned to the east, where he passed on at about 73 years of age on C.E. 30 September 420, and rests under the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and the Church of England (Anglican Communion). Saint Jerome’s Day is on 30 September of each year.
 
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.” -Jerome K. Jerome: “Three Men in a Boat” (1889), chapter 15
 
“One of the advantages of being poor is that it necessitates the cultivation of the virtues.” -Jerome K. Jerome
 
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.” -Jerome K. Jerome

“One of the advantages of being poor is that it necessitates the cultivation of the virtues.” -Jerome K. Jerome
 
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He became a laborer, a humorist, and a novelist. His works include “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow” (1886) and “Three Men in a Boat” (1887). Jerome Klapka Jerome passed on at 68 years of age on 14 June 1927 in Northampton, England.
 
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“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “River Driftwood” (1881), ‘Country By-Ways’
 
“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
 
“It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
 
“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Fiction” (1896)
 
“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.” -Sarah Orne Jewett: “A Country Doctor” (1919)
 
Sarah Orne Jewett was born in 1849. Her writing was first published in ”The Atlantic” magazine when she was 19 years of age. Sarah Orne Jewett passed on in 1909.
 
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“Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.” -Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal: speaking in the Republican Presidential debate (6 August 2015)
 
Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal was born on 10 June 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America. He became a United States Congressman (2005 - 2008) and a governor of the state of Louisiana (2008 - 2016).
 
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“More often than not in life the height of our success is determined by the depth of our commitment.” -Martin C. Jischke
 
Martin C. Jischke was a president of Purdue University.
 
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” -Steve Jobs
 
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” -Steve Jobs
 
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Steve Jobs
 
Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs was born in 1955. He was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor. He was a co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Incorporated and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios, and was a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs passed on in 2011.
 
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“Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.” -John XXIII
 
“See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little.” -John XXIII
 
John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli on 25 November 1881 in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Provincia di Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers that lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church on 10 August 1904 and served in various posts, including appointments as a papal nuncio in France, and a delegate to Bulgaria and Greece. Pope Pius XII made Mr. Roncalli a cardinal in a consistory on 12 January 1953, in addition to naming him the Patriarch of Venice and the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca. John XXIII was a pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 28 October 1958 until his passing. John XXIII passed on at 81 years of age on 3 June 1963 in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.
 
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“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” -John Paul II

John Paul II was born in 1920. He was a leader of the Roman Catholic Church. John Paul II passed on in 2005.
 
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“We tend to live up to the words we hear in our own head.” -Chalene Johnson
 
Chalene Johnson was born on 2 February 1969. She is a physical fitness trainer and the founder of Powder Blue Productions.
 
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“It is how one responds to the imperfections of others that will determine one’s growth.” -Lucille Johnson
 
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“You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don’t know where you want to go.” -Percy H. Johnson
 
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“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 see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely these are my native air.” -Eli Stanley Jones
 
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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Franklin P. Jones
 
Franklin Pierce Jones was born in 1908 in Saratoga, New York, United States of America. He became a news reporter, a public relations executive, and a humorist. Mr. Jones later worked as a freelance writer, producing more than 35,000 paragraphs, epigrams, anecdotes, gag lines, and definitions. He is known for writing the longest continuously published feature in the “Saturday Evening Post,” a column titled, “Put It This Way,” during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Franklin Pierce Jones passed at 72 years of age on 29 December 1980 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“Let me challenge you to know that we live in an inexhaustible abundance in this Universe. There is no limit to what you can be or have, except your ability to dream and believe in your dream.” -James Breckenridge Jones: “If You Can Count to Four: Here’s How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life!” (5 February 2015)
 
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“I have not yet begun to fight!” -John Paul Jones
 
John Paul Jones was born in 1747. He became an American navy admiral. John Paul Jones passed on in 1792.
 
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“Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Involve me, and I’ll learn.” -Marla Jones
 
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“I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over.” -Milton Jones
 
“My grandfather invented the cold air balloon. It never really took off.” -Milton Jones
 
“My wife - it’s difficult to say what she does. She sells seashells on the seashore.” -Milton Jones
 
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“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.” -Roger Jones
 
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“Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordan
 
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
 
Michael Jordan was born in 1963. He is an American professional basketball player.
 
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“Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.” -William George Jordan: “The Majesty of Calmness” (1900), page 54
 
“Happiness is the soul’s joy in the possession of the intangible.” -William George Jordan

“There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.” -William George Jordan
 
“Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter, and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.” -William George Jordan
 
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“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.” -Joseph Joubert
 
“Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.” -Joseph Joubert
 
“The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties.” -Joseph Joubert, as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
 
“What we say is similar to what we are.” -Joseph Joubert: as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
 
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” -Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert was born on 7 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord, France. He became a moralist, a philosopher, and an essayist, best known for his posthumously published “Pensées” (“Thoughts”). Joseph Joubert passed on at 69 years of age on 4 May 1824.
 
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“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.” -Julian of Norwich
 
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“By persuading others, we convince ourselves.” -Franciscus Junius: as quoted in “The Letters of Junius” (1768)
 
Franciscus Junius was born in 1589. Franciscus Junius passed on in 1677.
 
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“Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” -Juvenal
 
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” -Juvenal

“Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses.” -Juvenal

“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.” -Juvenal
 
“Who will guard the guardians themselves?” [translation to English]
“Qui custodiet ipsos custodes.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
 
“Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.” [translation to English]
“Mens sana in corpore sano.” [original Latin]
-Juvenal
 
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, also known as Juvenal, was born in about C.E. 47 in Aquinum, Roman Empire (now Aquino, Italy). He became a poet and a satirist in ancient Rome. He is known for his “Satires.” Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis passed on in C.E. 138.
 
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Quotations by Authors Ka through Kz

2/19/2020

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“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am - and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.” -Henry J. Kaiser
 
Henry John Kaiser was born in 1882. He was an American shipbuilder. Henry John Kaiser passed on in 1967.
 
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” -Immanuel Kant
 
Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He was a Prussian-born German philosopher. Immanuel Kant passed on at 79 years of age on 12 February 1804 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
 
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“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
 
Rosabeth Moss Kanter was born on 15 March 1943. She is a writer and a public speaker.
 
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“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles.” -Alex Karras
 
Alex Karras is a pro football player.
 
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“Instead of doubting yourself, look at all the impossible tasks that men and women have achieved over the years, and use this as motivation to push yourself even further, in order to achieve your dreams and reach your goals.” -Suzy Kassem
 
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“Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.” -Ellie Katz
 
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“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.” -Anna Kavan
 
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“Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!” -Alan Kay
 
Alan Kay is an American computer scientist.
 
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“It is far better to be exhausted from success then to be rested from failure.” -Mary Kay
 
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“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 became one of England’s outstanding Romantic poets. Between the ages of 18 and 24, he wrote poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1817 and included his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” His poems of 1820, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn,” are unequaled for dignity, beauty, and imagery. Also well-known is his melodic poem “The Eve of Saint Agnes” (1820). John Keats passed on at 26 years of age on 23 February 1821.
 
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“I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.” -Sam Keen
 
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“There is no such thing as failure, only results, with some more successful than others.” -Jeff Keller
 
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“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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“Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” -Corita Kent

Mary Corita Kent was born as Frances Elizabeth Kent on 20 November 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States of America. She was an American Catholic religious sister and a graphic artist. Mary Corita Kent passed on at 67 years of age on 18 September 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” -Charles F. Kettering

“When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I’d place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: Leave slide rules here. If I didn’t do that, I’d find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he’d be on his feet saying, ‘Boss, you can’t do it.’” -Charles F. Kettering
 
Charles Franklin Kettering was born on 29 August 1876. He was an American engineer, inventor, and business executive. Charles Franklin Kettering passed on at 82 years of age on 25 November 1958.
 
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“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” -Ken S. Keyes, Junior: “Handbook to Higher Consciousness” (1975)
 
Ken S. Keyes, Junior was born in 1921. He became a personal growth writer and lecturer. Ken S. Keyes, Junior passed on in 1995.

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

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

“When people stop reading the Bible and Shakespeare, they cut themselves off from an enormous number of figures of speech used in the English language. Growing up without these models, they never develop the habit of using simile and metaphor themselves. Eventually they develop a fear and loathing of all such literary conventions and a conviction that anyone who uses them is being somehow ‘insincere.’ No wonder ringing political oratory is dead. No candidate would dare.” -Florence King, as quoted in “National Review” (23 July 2001)
 
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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King
 
“If you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King
 
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King 
 
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” -Stephen King
 
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King
 
Stephen King was born in 1947. He is an American writer of horror novels and fiction.
 
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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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“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
 
“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” -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

“You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” -Kim 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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“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.” -Grenville Kleiser

“Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified may do great damage but if ignored or dismissed from thought will disappear from inanition.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“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
 
“It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest active effort and good results will inevitably follow.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement announcement and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning and the last thing each night suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself silently or aloud until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
“Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.” -Grenville Kleiser

“You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.” -Grenville Kleiser
 
Grenville Kleiser was born on 25 July 1868 in Toronto, Canada. He was married to Elizabeth Margaret Thompson on 5 July 1894. He became an American instructor in public speaking at the Yale Divinity School of Yale University, and a writer of humor and inspiration. Grenville Kleiser passed on at 85 years of age on 27 August 1953 in New York City, New York, United States of America.

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“Everyone has the will to win; what is important is the will to prepare.” -Bobby Knight
 
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” -Bobby Knight
 
“The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.” -Bobby Knight

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Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?
-Damon Knight: “The Man in the Tree” (1984)
 
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“Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.” -Frank Hyneman Knight
 
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“Treat others as you would like them to treat you, but, you can not do for others what they are unwilling to do for themselves.” -Lisa Knutson
 
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“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” -Kay Knudsen
 
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“A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service it gets small faster than it grew big.” -William S. Knudsen
 
“The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today or at any time.” -William S. Knudsen
 
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“My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be.” -Alice Koeller
 
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“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.” -Kathe Kollwitz
 
Kathe Kollwitz was born in 1867. Kathe Kollwitz passed on in 1945.
 
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“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.” -Mira Komarovsky (born 1906)
 
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“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.” -Vivian Komori
 
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“All of the significant battles are waged within the self.” -Sheldon Kopp
 
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“If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.” -Shane Koyczan
 
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“Most people are so worried about their security that they are afraid to take the risks that let them really enjoy living.” -Paul Krapf
 
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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
 
“If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” -Ray Kroc

“There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.” -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
 
“You’re only as good as the people you hire.” -Ray Kroc

Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc was born in 1902. He was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald’s in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Like KFC founder Harland Sanders, Ray Kroc’s success came later in life, when he was past his fiftieth birthday. Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc passed on in 1984.
 
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“The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.” -Louis Kronenberger
 
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“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
 
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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2/18/2020

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“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.” -Charles Lamb
 
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.” -Charles Lamb
 
“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” -Charles Lamb
 
“We can be nowhere private except in the midst of London.” -Charles Lamb

“We see the world not as it is but as we are.” -Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb, also known by the pseudonym Elia, was born in London, England on 10 February 1775. He was a clerk in the East India offices and later became an essayist and a poet. His works include “Tales from Shakespeare,” which was written in collaboration with his sister, and “Essays of Elia.” Charles Lamb passed on at 59 years of age on 27 December 1834 in Edmonton, London, England.
 
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“One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has.” -Louis L’Amour
 
 “There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.” -Louis L’Amour
 
Louis L’Amour was born as Louis Dearborn LaMoore on 22 March 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America. He became a 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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“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” -Edwin Land
 
Edwin Herbert Land was born in 1909. Edwin Herbert Land passed on in 1991.
 
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“As the firefly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind - when at rest, it darkens.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
“Few save the poor feel for the poor.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
“Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
Were it not better to forget
Than to remember and regret?
-Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known by initials L. E. L., was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, England. She became a poet and a novelist. Letitia Elizabeth Landon passed on in 1838.
 
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“Levity is the soul of wit.” -Melville D. Landon
 
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“Something constructive comes from every defeat.” -Tom Landry
 
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“Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.” -Kurt Langner
 
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“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” -Lucy Larcom
 
“If the world’s a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.” -Lucy Larcom
 
Lucy Larcom was born on about 5 March 1824 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a teacher, a writer, and a poet. Lucy Larcom passed on at 69 years of age on 17 April 1893 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn’t ordered.” -Ring Lardner
 
“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.” -Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer ‘Ring’ Lardner was born in 1885. He was an American writer and satirist. Ringgold Wilmer ‘Ring’ Lardner passed on in 1933.
 
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“A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.” -Doug Larson
 
“Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.” -Doug Larson

“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.” -Doug Larson

“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.” -Doug Larson
 
“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.” -Doug Larson

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” -Doug Larson
 
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” -Doug Larson

“To err is human; to admit it superhuman.” -Doug Larson
 
Doug Larson was born in 1902. He was an American journalist. Doug Larson passed on in 1981.
 
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“Your joy comes from what you give, not from what you accumulate.” -Frank Laubach
 
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“I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” -Estée Lauder
 
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“It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.” -J. M. Laurence
 
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“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.” -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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“I am very fond of Sussex - it is so full of sky and wind and weather.” -D. H. Lawrence

“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.” -D. H. Lawrence

“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence
 
David Herbert Lawrence, also known as D. H. Lawrence, was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. He was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a literary critic, and a painter. David Herbert Lawrence passed on at 44 years of age on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France.
 
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“If we must all agree, all work together, we’re no better than a machine. If an individual can’t work in solidarity with his fellows, it’s his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” (May 1974)
 
“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Left Hand of Darkness” (1969)
 
“To oppose something is to maintain it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
 
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” -Ursula K. Le Guin
 
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born on 21 October 1929 in Berkeley, California, United States of America. She is a novelist, a short story writer, a poet, and an essayist. Her website is http://www.ursulakleguin.com/.
 
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Barry Le Patner
 
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“It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.” -C. W. Leadbeater
 
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“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts. Think, act, and talk negatively, and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm, and you will attract positive results.” -Michael LeBoeuf
 
Michael LeBoeuf was born on 27 February 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a writer and a former professor of management at the University of New Orleans.
 
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“Success didn’t spoil me; I’ve always been insufferable.” -Fran Lebowitz

Frances Ann ‘Fran’ Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America. She is a writer, a professional speaker, and a humorist.
 
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“He who limps is still walking.” -Stanislaw J. Lec 
 
“I prefer the sign ‘No Entry’ to the one that says ‘No Exit’.” -Stanislaw J. Lec

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
 
“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
 
“Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
 
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was born on 6 March 1909 in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine). He became a writer, a poet, and an aphorist. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec passed on at 57 years of age on 7 May 1966 in Warsaw, Poland.
 
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” -Bruce Lee
 
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” -Bruce Lee
 
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” -Bruce Lee
 
“To be discouraged is to be defeated - it is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. No man is defeated unless he is discouraged.” -Bruce Lee
 
Bruce Lee is a pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan, who was born on 27 November 1940 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a martial artist instructor and an actor. Lee Jun Fan passed on at 32 years of age on 20 July 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
 
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“Don’t be down on that you’re not up on.” -Harold B. Lee
 
“Don’t try to live too many days at a time.” -Harold B. Lee
 
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“A man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” -Jack Lee

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“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” -Robert E. Lee
 
“You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.” -Robert E. Lee
 
Robert E. Lee was born in 1807. He was a military general in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee passed on in 1870.
 
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“Be mindful of your self-talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe.” -David James Lees
 
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“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.” -John Lehman
 
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“Good words do more than hard speeches as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak which all the blustering winds could not do but only make him bind it closer to him.” -Robert Leighton
 
“Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.” -Robert Leighton
 
“Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgement of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desire of the best and wisest of the species.” -Robert Leighton: “Theological Lectures,” No. 5, ‘Of the Immortality of the Soul,’ published in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), page 514
 
Robert Leighton was born in 1611 in London, England. He became a prelate, a bishop, and an archbishop. Robert Leighton passed on at about 73 years of age on 25 June 1684 in London, England.
 
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“If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks, and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.” -Madeleine L’Engle
 
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” -Madeleine L’Engle
 
Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born on 29 November 1918 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a novelist. She is known for books including “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962), “A Wind in the Door” (1973), and “Many Waters” (1986). Madeleine L’Engle Camp passed on at 88 years of age on 6 September 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting.” -Paddy Lennox (2009)
 
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“You can’t run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.” -John Leo
 
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“The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.” -Aleksei Leonov
 
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“I’m always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.” -Doris Lessing
 
Doris May Lessing was born in 1919. She lived on a farm in Rhodesia from 1924 to 1949, and then settled in England. She became novelist, a poet, a playwright, a librettist, a biographer, and a short story writer. Doris May Lessing passed on in 2013.
 
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“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: as attributed in “Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association” (1907), volumes 46 and 47
 
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in 1729. He was a German writer, dramatist, philosopher, publicist, and art critic. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing passed on in 1781.
 
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“Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.” -Sam Levenson
 
Sam Levenson was born on 28 December 1911. He became a humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist. Sam Levenson passed on at 68 years of age on 27 August 1980 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
 
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“You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.” -Joseph E. Levine
 
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“From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.” -George Henry Lewes
 
“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. George Henry Lewes passed on in 1878.
 
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“Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important, only know what is best for you.” -Ken Lewis
 
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“I ascended to the top of a cut bluff this morning, from whence I had a most delightful view of the country, the whole of which, except the valley formed by the Missouri, is void of timber or underbrush, exposing to the first glance of the spectator immense herds of Buffalo, Elk, Deer, and Antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture.” -Meriwether Lewis: in eastern Montana (22 April 1805)
 
Meriwether Lewis was born in 1774. He was an American explorer. Meriwether Lewis passed on in 1809.
 
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“‘The trouble with this country is,’ observed Herndon, ‘that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is.’’” -Sinclair Lewis
 
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885. He was an American novelist and playwright. Sinclair Lewis passed on in 1951.
 
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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 was born on 24 March 1878 in Howell, Michigan, United States of America. He became a teacher, a university president, a politician, and a federal government official. William Mather Lewis passed on at 67 years of age on 11 November 1945 in Colebrook, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“Ask yourself always, ‘How can this be done better?’” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
 
“It is a sure sign of an improved character if you like paying debts as much as getting money.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
 
“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
 
“Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Nothing contributes more to peace of mind than to have no opinions whatever.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
 
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” -George C. Lichtenberg

“To do exactly the opposite is also a form of imitation.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742. He was a German physicist and drama critic. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg passed on in 1799.
 
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“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 
“The world has different owners at sunrise . . . Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.” -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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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.” -Mary Wilson Little
 
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“It is not where you begin, it is where you end that counts.” -Faith Littlefield
 
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“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.” -Livy
 
“In great straits and when hope is small the boldest counsels are the safest.” -Livy

“Woe to the vanquished.” -Livy
 
Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was born in 59 B.C.E. He became a historian in ancient Rome. Titus Livius passed on in C.E. 17.
 
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“A little of what you fancy does you good.” -Marie Lloyd
 
Marie Lloyd, also known as Bella Delmer, is a pseudonym of Matilda Alice Victoria Wood
 
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“I have always thought the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -John Locke

“To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” -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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“The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” -Peter Loewer
 
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“What really matters is what you do with what you have.” -Shirley Lord
 
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“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” -Ronnie Lott
 
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“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
 
Lawrence George Lovasik was born on 22 June 1913 in Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a Catholic priest. Lawrence George Lovasik passed on at 72 years of age on 9 June 1986 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.” -James Russell Lowell
 
“Aim high, you normally hit what you aim for. Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” -James Russell Lowell

“Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.” -James Russell Lowell

“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” -James Russell Lowell
 
“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.” -James Russell Lowell
 
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” -James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was born on 22 February 1819. He was an American poet, essayist, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. They often had conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. He was the first editor of the “Atlantic Monthly” (1857 - 1861). James Russell Lowell passed on at 72 years of age on 12 August 1891.
 
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“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.” -Max Lucado: as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (March 1998)
 
Max Lucado was born on 11 January 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, United States of America. He is a Christian writer and a preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. His website is at www.MaxLucado.com.
 
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“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles, and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you.” -George Lucas
 
George Lucas is a movie director and producer.
 
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“Trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it puts everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and classified. Throw it at your feet, and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity.” -Celia Luce 
 
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“In the final analysis, there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.” -Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce was born on 10 March 1903 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a writer, an editor, a playwright, and a United States ambassador to Italy. She is known for her 1936 hit play, “The Women,” which had an all-female cast. Her husband was Henry Luce, publisher of “Time,” “Life,” and “Fortune” magazines. Clare Boothe Luce passed on at 84 years of age on 9 October 1987 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
 
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“A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.” -Robert J. Lumsden
 
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“Life, it seems to me, is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grownup people.” -Robert Lynd
 
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Quotations by Authors Ma through Mz

2/17/2020

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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.” -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 in Leicestershire, England. He became a historian, a politician, a statesman, an essayist, and a poet. Thomas Babington Macaulay passed on at 59 years of age on 28 December 1859 in London, England.
 
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The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
-Charles Mackay: “Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics” (1857): ‘The Old and the New’
 
Charles Mackay was born on 27 March 1814 in Perth, Scotland. He became a newspaper editor, a poet, a writer, an anthologist, a novelist, and a songwriter. He is known for his book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841). Charles Mackay passed on at 75 years of age on 24 December 1889 in London, England.
 
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“If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.” -Harvey B. Mackay
 
Harvey B. Mackay was born in 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He is a syndicated columnist, writer, speaker, and businessman.
 
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“It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.” -James Mackintosh
 
James Mackintosh was born on 24 October 1765 in Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He became a historian and a statesman. James Mackintosh passed on at 66 years of age on 30 May 1832 in London, England.
 
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“There’s only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” -Archibald MacLeish
 
Archibald Macleish was born on 7 May 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America. He was married to Ada Hitchcock in 1916. He became a poet, a playwright, an essayist, and a lawyer. He lived in Europe (1923 - 1928) and was editor of “Fortune Magazine” (1929 - 1938) in New York. Archibald Macleish passed on at 89 years of age on 20 April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Live in your hopes and not in your fears.” -Johnny Majors
 
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Better guide the young than reclaim them when old
For the voice of true wisdom is calling
To rescue the fallen is good but ’tis best
To prevent other people from falling
Better close up the source of temptation and crime
Than deliver from dungeon or gallery
Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff
Than an ambulance down in the valley.
-Joseph Malins
 
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“Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” -Maxwell Maltz
 
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“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” -Benoit Mandelbrot
 
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“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” -Horace Mann

“You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.” -Horace Mann
 
Horace Mann was born on 4 May 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an educator. Horace Mann passed on at 63 years of age on 2 August 1859 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States of America.
 
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“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” -Thomas Mann
 
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.” -Thomas Mann
 
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“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“I’ve learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth . . . I must walk away. I owe it to myself . . . I owe it to my future.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” -Steve Maraboli
 
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“Let your courage inspire the world around you.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” -Steve Maraboli

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of Nature.” -Steve Maraboli
 
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” -Steve Maraboli: “Life, the Truth, and Being Free”
 
Steve Maraboli was born in 1975. He is a professional speaker and a writer.
 
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“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” -Marcel Marceau
 
Marcel Marceau was born in 1923.
 
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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour you are now wasting dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.” -Orison Swett Marden

“Go as far as you can see and when you get there you will see farther.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“It is just as easy to go through life looking for the good and the beautiful, instead of the ugly; for the noble instead of the ignoble; for the bright and cheerful instead of the despairing; to see the bright side instead of the dark side. To set your face always towards the sunlight is just as easy as to see always the shadows, and it makes all the difference in your character between content and discontent, between happiness and misery, and in your life between prosperity and adversity, between success and failure.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.” -Orison Swett Marden
 
“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them . . . they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.” -Orison S. Marden
 
“We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.” -Orison S. Marden
 
Orison Swett Marden was born on 11 June 1848 in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire, United States of America. Despite being orphaned at 7 years of age and having lived with several different guardians, he went on to achieve degrees in Medicine and Law at Harvard University. He became an inspirational writer and an editor. He wrote about how to achieve success in life, discussing common-sense principles and virtues for making a well-rounded life. Many of his ideas are in support of New Thought philosophy. He is known as the founder of “Success” magazine. Orison Swett Marden passed on at 75 years of age on 10 March 1924.
 
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“It is not what you were, it’s what you are today.” -David Marion
 
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There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
     None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others,
     Comes back into our own.
-Edwin Markham: “A Creed” (1900)
 
Edwin Markham was born on 23 April 1852 in Oregon City, Oregon, United States of America. He became a poet and a lecturer. Edwin Markham passed on at 87 years of age on 7 March 1940 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” -Peter Marshall

Peter Marshall was born in 1902. Peter Marshall passed on in 1949.
 
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“There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t. Yet in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability to do it anyway.” -Ralph Marston
 
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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
 
“Each day provides its own gifts.” -Martial
 
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.” -Martial
 
Marcus Valerius Martialis, also known simply as Martial, was born in March in a year between C.E. 38 and C.E. 41 in Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain). He became a Roman poet and a satirist. He is known for his twelve books of epigrams, or short witty poems, published in Rome between C.E. 86 and C.E. 103. He wrote 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Marcus Valerius Martialis passed on between C.E. 102 and C.E. 104 in Rome.
 
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“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.” -Miss Manners: “Miss Manner’s Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior” (1982)
 
“Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you’re a hermit on a mountain, you don’t have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you’ve got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.” -Miss Manners
 
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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“As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.” -John Mason
 
John Mason was born in 1706. John Mason passed on in 1773.
 
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It’s hard to look pleasant when anguish is present
     And yet it is strictly worth while;
Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling
     Can show off your grit like a smile.
-Walt Mason
 
Walter Mason Camp was born in 1865 in Camptown, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He was married to Emeline L. F. Sayles in 1898. He became a railroad engineer, a writer, and an editor. Walter Mason Camp passed on in 1925 in Kankakee, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune, are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed.” -William Mathews
 
William Mathews was born in 1818. William Mathews passed on in 1909.
 
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“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.” -W. Somerset Maugham
 
“Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.” -W. Somerset Maugham
 
“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

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.” -W. Somerset Maugham

“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.” -W. Somerset Maugham

“There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.” -W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham, also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was born on 25 January 1874 at the United Kingdom’s embassy in Paris, France. He was married to Syrie Wellcome in 1917. He studied to be a physician, but after the great success of his first novel, “Liza of Lambeth” (1897), he decided to become a writer. He spent the next 65 years as a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), and a short story writer. William Somerset Maugham passed on at 91 years of age on 16 December 1965 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
 
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“He who wants to do everything will never do anything.” -Andre Maurois

Andre Maurois was born in 1885. Andre Maurois passed on in 1967.
 
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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -Foster C. McClellan
 
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The cricket’s gone; we only hear machines
In erg and atom they exact their pay.
And life is largely lived on silver screens.
-David McCord
 
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“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee: “Casuals of the Sea” (1916)
 
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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“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” -Robert Murray M’Cheyne: letter (27 June 1839)
 
Robert Murray M’Cheyne, sometimes spelled McCheyne, was born on 21 May 1813 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a poet and a minister in the Church of Scotland. Robert Murray M’Cheyne passed on at 29 years of age on 25 March 1843 in Dundee, Scotland.
 
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“The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.” -David McIntosh
 
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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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“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” -David O. McKay
 
David Oman McKay was born on 8 September 1873 in Huntsville, Utah, United States of America. He became a religious leader and an educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1951 - 1970). David Oman McKay passed on at 96 years of age on 18 January 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“No one really listens to anyone else and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.” -Mignon McLaughlin
 
“There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.” -Mignon McLaughlin
 
Mignon McLaughlin was born on 6 June 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. She became a journalist, a short story writer, and an aphorist. Mignon McLaughlin passed on at 70 years of age on 20 December 1983 in Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America.
 
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“It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.” -Peter McWilliams
 
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams
 
Peter Alexander McWilliams was born on 5 August 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. He became a writer of self-help books, a poet, and a photographer. Peter Alexander McWilliams passed on at 50 years of age on 14 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Author website: http://www.PeterMcWilliams.org.
 
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“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.” -Margaret Mead
 
Margaret Mead was born on 16 December 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an anthropologist. Margaret Mead passed on at 76 years of age on 15 November 1978 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.” -Jayne Meadows
 
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“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens
 
“The man who runs may fight again.” -Menander of Athens: “Monostikoi”
 
Menander of Athens was born in 342 B.C.E. in Kifissia, Athens, Greece. He became a dramatist. Menander of Athens passed on at about 51 years of age in 291 B.C.E. in Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
 
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“A great man is he who has not lost his childlike heart.” -Mencius (Meng-Tse)
 
Mencius, also known as Meng-Tse, lived sometime in the 4th century B.C.E.
 
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“It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and would-haves.” -M. H. Meng
 
Moh Hon Meng.
 
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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 G. Menzies
 
Robert G. Menzies was born in 1894. Robert G. Menzies passed on in 1978.
 
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“Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.” -Thomas Merton
 
“The biggest human temptation is . . . to settle for too little.” -Thomas Merton
 
Thomas Merton was born on 31 January 1915 in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. He became a writer, a poet, and a Catholic Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, United States of America. In 1949, he became an ordained priest and was given the name Father Louis. Thomas Merton passed on at 53 years of age on 10 December 1968 in Samut Prakan, Thailand.
 
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“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.” -Reinhold Messner
 
Reinhold Messner was born on 17 September 1944 in Brixen, Italy. He is an alpinest, or a mountaineer who does difficult climbs.
 
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“His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.” -John Stuart Mill
 
John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, London, England. He became a philosopher, a political economist, and a civil servant. John Stuart Mill passed on at 66 years of age on 8 May 1873 in Avignon, France.
 
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“If you analyze anything, you destroy it.” -Arthur Miller
 
Arthur Asher Miller was born on 17 October 1915 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a playwright, a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Among his plays are “All My Sons,” “The Crucible,” and “A View from the Bridge.” He also wrote the screenplay for the film, “The Misfits.” Arthur Asher Miller passed on at 89 years of age on 10 February 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.” -Henry Miller

“In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.” -Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller was born on 26 December 1891 in Yorkville, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an essayist, a travel memoirist, a literary critic, a watercolor painter, and a novelist. His works include the books, “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn.” He lived in Europe from 1930 to 1940. Henry Valentine Miller passed on at 88 years of age on 7 June 1980 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” -John Homer Miller
 
John Homer Miller was born in 1839. John Homer Miller passed on in 1913.
 
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“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.” -Merle Miller
 
Merle Miller was born on 17 May 1919 in Montour, Iowa, United States of America. He was an American writer. Merle Miller passed on at 67 years of age on 10 June 1986 in Danbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine.” -Dan Millman
 
“The key to happiness isn’t in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Dan Millman
 
Dan Millman is a speaker and a writer.
 
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“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” -John Milton: “Paradise Lost” (1667)

“Peace hath her victories no less renowned than War.” -John Milton
 
“They also serve who only stand and wait.” -John Milton
 
“To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.” -John Milton

John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 in Bread Street, London, England. He became a poet, a pamphleteer, and a civil servant. He went blind in 1652, and wrote his epic blank verse poem, “Paradise Lost” in 1667. John Milton passed on at 65 years of age on 8 November 1674 in Bunhill Row, London, England.

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“I’ve looked at life from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow, it’s life’s illusions I recall . . . I really don’t know life at all.” -Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides Now” (1969) song
 
Roberta Joan Anderson ‘Joni’ Mitchell.
 
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“It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.” -W. Mitchell
 
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“Things are only worth what you make them worth.” -Molière
 
“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.” -Molière
 
Molière is a pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who was born on 15 January 1622 in Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, France. He became a playwright, an actor, and a poet. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin passed on at 51 years of age on 17 February 1673 in Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France.
 
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“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet
 
Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet was born in 1840. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting, “Impression, soleil levant,” which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet passed on in 1926.
 
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“Fight the good fight with all thy might.” -J. S. B. Monsell
 
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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” -Thomas S. Monson
 
Thomas Spencer Monson was born on 21 August 1927 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He became a bishop and the sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thomas Spencer Monson passed on at 90 years of age on 2 January 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
 
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“I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.” -Elizabeth Montagu
 
Elizabeth Montagu was born as Elizabeth Robinson on 2 October 1718 in Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth Montagu passed on at 77 years of age on 25 August 1800 in London, England.
 
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“Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.” -L. M. Montgomery: “Anne of Green Gables” (1908)
 
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L. M. Montgomery
 
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” -L. M. Montgomery
 
Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as L. M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery MacDonald, was born on 30 November 1874 in New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She became a writer. She is known for a series of novels beginning with “Anne of Green Gables” (1908). Lucy Maud Montgomery passed on at 67 years of age on 24 April 1942 in Toronto, Canada.
 
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“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, and boredom.” -Dwight L. Moody
 
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian evangelist and a publisher, connected with the Holiness Movement. He is known as the founder of the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, as well as the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. Dwight Lyman Moody passed on at 62 years of age on 22 December 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” -George Moore
 
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George Moore
 
George Augustus Moore was born in on 24 February 1852. He was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist, and dramatist. George Augustus Moore passed on at 80 years of age on 21 January 1933.
 
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” -Marianne Craig Moore

Marianne Craig Moore was born in 1887. Marianne Craig Moore passed on in 1972.
 
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“How goodness heightens beauty!” -Hannah More
 
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” -Hannah More
 
“We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.” -Hannah More
 
Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745. She was an English religious writer and social reformer. Hannah More passed on at 88 years of age on 7 September 1833.
 
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“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -Morell
 
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” -J. P. Morgan
 
John Pierpont Morgan, Senior, also known as J. P. Morgan, was born on 17 April 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. He became a banker, a financier, an art collector, and a philanthropist. In 1892, he arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company, to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged it in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation. John Pierpont Morgan, Senior passed on at 75 years of age on 31 March 1913 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.” -Christopher Morley
 
“In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” -Christopher Morley

“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” -Christopher Morley
 
“Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” -Christopher Morley
 
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” -Christopher Morley

“There is only one rule for being a good talker: learn to listen.” -Christopher Morley
 
Christopher Darlington Morley was born on 5 May 1890 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a journalist, a novelist, an essayist, a poet, a lecturer, and a producer of stage theater. He was a founder and long-time contributing editor of the “Saturday Review of Literature.” Christopher Darlington Morley passed on at 66 years of age on 28 March 1957 in Roslyn, New York, United States of America.
 
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“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” -Dwight Morrow: as quoted in the “San Francisco News” (1 June 1949) (similar quotation attributed to Milton Friedman)
 
Dwight Whitney Morrow was born on 11 January 1873 in Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a banker, and a diplomat. Dwight Whitney Morrow passed on at 58 years of age on 5 October 1931 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States of America.
 
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“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” -Kate Morton
 
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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.” -Lucretia Mott
 
Lucretia Mott was born in 1793. Lucretia Mott passed on in 1880.
 
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“You only get paid for done.” -Dax Moy: “The Magic Hundred” (14 September 2008) as published at http://magichundred.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-only-get-rewards-for-done.html
 
Dax Moy was born on 20 September 1970. He is a British physical fitness trainer.
 
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfangus Theophilus Mozart, was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He became a musician and a composer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed on at 35 years of age on 5 December 1791 in Vienna, Austria.
 
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“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” - Iris Murdoch
 
“We can only learn to love by loving.” -Iris Murdoch
 
Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch was born on 15 July 1919 in Dublin, Ireland. She became a novelist and a philosopher. Her first published novel was, “Under the Net” (1954). Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch passed on at 79 years of age on 8 February 1999 in Oxfordshire, England.
 
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“Men will spend their health getting wealth; then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.” -Mike Murdock
 
Michael Dean ‘Mike’ Murdock was born on 18 April 1946 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a proponent of prosperity theology, pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry in Fort Worth, Texas, and host of the “Wisdom Keys with Mike Murdock” television program.
 
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“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” -Francois Muriac
 
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“Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace, and you will be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.” -Caroline Myss
 
Caroline Myss was born in 1952.
 
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2/16/2020

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“To be a person of truth, be swayed neither by approval nor disapproval. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.” -Nachman of Breslov
 
“You are never given an obstacle you cannot overcome.” -Nachman of Breslov
 
Nachman of Breslov was born in 1772 in Medzeboz, Ukraine. He was a great-grandson of Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He became a “Torah” sage, teacher of Hasidic Judaism, and the founder of the Breslov Hasidic sect. Believers of the Breslov Hasidic sect endeavor to develop a blissful relationship with God and believe in prayer as the principle expression of religious life. Nachman of Breslov is known as the author of the work, “Likutey Moharan,” composed partially by himself and partially by his chief disciple, Rabbi Nossan Sternhartz. Nachman of Breslov passed on at 38 years of age in 1810 in Uman, Ukraine.
 
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“It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.” -George Jean Nathan

George Jean Nathan was born in 1882. He was an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine “The Smart Set” to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing “The American Mercury” and “The American Spectator.” George Jean Nathan passed on in 1958.
 
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“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against not with the wind. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.” -John Neal
 
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“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” -Kristen Neff
 
“Unlike self-criticism, which asks if you’re good enough, self-compassion asks, ‘What’s good for you?’” -Kristin Neff
 
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“Most things, except agriculture, can wait.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
 
Jawaharlal Nehru was born in 1889. Jawaharlal Nehru passed on in 1964.
 
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“Of those who say nothing few are silent.” -Thomas Neil
 
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“There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.” -Russell M. Nelson
 
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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” -Willie Nelson
 
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“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.” -Mabel Newcomber
 
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“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” -John Henry Newman
 
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” -John Henry Newman
 
“Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” -John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman, also known as Cardinal Newman, was born in 1801 in London, England. He became a minister in the Church of England in 1824. In 1845, he converted to Roman Catholicism, become an ordained priest in 1848, and then become a cardinal in 1879. He wrote two novels, “Loss and Gain,” and “Callista.” John Henry Newman passed on in 1890.
 
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“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” -A. Edward Newton
 
A. Edward Newton is Alfred Edward Newton.
 
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“People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did it.” -Howard W. Newton
 
“The thoughtless are rarely wordless.” -Howard W. Newton
 
Howard W. Newton was born in 1903. He was an American advertising executive and magazine columnist. Howard W. Newton passed on in 1951.
 
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Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
-John Newton
 
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton
 
John Newton was born in 1725. John Newton passed on in 1807.
 
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“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” -J. F. Newton
 
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we can take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty that is the test of living.” -J. F. Newton
 
Joseph Fort Newton, also known as J. F. Newton, was born in 1878. Joseph Fort Newton passed on in 1949.
 
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“To dig in one’s own earth with one’s own spade, does life hold anything better?” -Beverly Nichols

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“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . . and expectation.” -Jack Nicklaus
 
Jack Nicklaus was born in 1940. He is an American professional golfer.
 
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“A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the worlds ignorance and press for admission.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
 
“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.” -Reinhold Niebuhr

“It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.” -Reinhold Niebuhr

“Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
 
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
 
“The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.” -Reinhold Niebuhr

Karl Paul Reinhold ‘Reinhold’ Niebuhr was born in 1892. He was an American theologian, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary. Among his most influential books are “Moral Man and Immoral Society” and “The Nature and Destiny of Man.” Karl Paul Reinhold ‘Reinhold’ Niebuhr passed on in 1971.
 
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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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“A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and along with this, three or four good friends; such was luxury to Epicurus.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss the abyss gazes also into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” -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 the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions without also remembering my reasons for them!” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not the strengths but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.” --Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The doer alone learneth.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“When marrying ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” -Nietzsche: “Beyond Good and Evil” (1885 - 1886)
 
“Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.” [translation to English]
“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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“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.” -Chester W. Nimitz
 
Chester William Nimitz was born in 1885. He was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. Chester William Nimitz passed on in 1966.
 
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“The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” -Anaïs Nin
 
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.” -Anaïs Nin
 
Anaïs Nin was born on 21 February 1903 as Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell. She was a French-born American writer and diarist. She became famous for her published journals, which span several decades. Anaïs Nin passed on at 73 years of age on 14 January 1977.
 
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“If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.” -Kitarp Nishida
 
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“A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.” -Louis Nizer
 
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” -Louis Nizer
 
Louis Nizer was born in 1902. He was an English-born American lawyer. Louis Nizer passed on in 1994.

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“Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” -Alex Noble
 
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“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by the short-range failures.” -Charles C. Noble: speech at a conference meeting (1951) at Syracuse University
 
Charles C. Noble was a dean of Hendricks Memorial Chapel at Syracuse University.
 
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“And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.” -Han Nolan
 
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“Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.” -Kathleen Norris
 
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” -Kathleen Norris
 
“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” -Kathleen Norris
 
Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris was born on 16 July 1880 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a novelist and a newspaper columnist. Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris passed on at ? years of age on 18 January 1966 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
 
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“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.” -Eleanor Holmes Norton
 
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born in 1937.
 
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“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.” -Michael Novak
 
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“Be virtuous and you will be happy, but you will be lonesome sometimes.” -Edgar Wilson Nye
 
Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye was born in 1850. He was an American humorist. Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye passed on in 1896.
 
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Quotations by Authors Oa through Oz

2/15/2020

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“If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.” -Dallin H. Oaks: “Be Not Deceived” (October 2004)
 
Dallin Harris Oaks was born on 12 August 1932 in Provo, Utah, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
 
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“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.” -Cynthia Occelli
 
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“I don’t dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a number.” -Nola Ochs
 
Nola Ochs was born on 22 November 1911 in Jetmore, Kansas, United States of America. At 95 years of age, on 14 May 2007, she became the world’s oldest college graduate up to that time. Nola Oaks passed on at 105 years of age on 9 December 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.
 
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“Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life’s simplest pleasures, like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in.” -Chrissy Ogden
 
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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 always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.” -David Ogilvy
 
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -things that I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe
 
“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
 
“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keefe
 
“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” -Georgia O’Keefe
 
“You have to get talked about to have your work sell.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
 
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on 15 November 1887 in Town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States of America. She became an artist. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe passed on at 98 years of age on 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
 
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.” -Judith Olney
 
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“No matter how much we learn there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know
I know I know I know the less.”
-A. Ray Olpin
 
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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” -Ken Olsen (1977)
 
Ken Olsen founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, and was later its president and chairman.
 
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim: “The Wise”
 
James Oppenheim was born on 24 May 1882 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He became a short story writer, a novelist, and the founder and editor of “The Seven Arts” literary magazine. James Oppenheim passed on at 50 years of age on 4 August 1932 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer


“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904. He became an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons, detonated on 16 July 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Julius Robert Oppenheimer passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1967.
 
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“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” -Robert Orben
 
“Live your life so that if someone says ‘Be yourself,’ it’s good advice.” -Robert Orben
 
Robert Orben was born on 4 March 1927 in the United States of America. He is a magician and a comedy writer.
 
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“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.” -John Boyle O’Reilly: as quoted in James Jeffrey Roche: “The Life of John Boyle O’Reilly” (1891), ‘Rules of the Road’
 
John Boyle O’Reilly was born on 28 June 1844 in Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. He became an Irish-born American writer, poet, journalist, and advocate for Irish self-rule. His poems are found in his books, “Songs from the Southern Seas, and Other Poems” (1873), “Songs, Legends and Ballads” (1878), and in other works. John Boyle O’Reilly passed on at 46 years of age on 10 August 1890 in Hull, Massachusetts, United States of America.
 
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
 
Leonard Orr was born on 15 November 1937 in Walton, New York, United States of America.
 
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“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” -José Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses” (1929)

José Ortega y Gasset was born on 9 May 1883 in Madrid, Spain. He became a philosopher and an essayist. José Ortega y Gasset passed on at 72 years of age on 18 October 1955 in Madrid, Spain.
 
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“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.” -W. A. Orton
 
William A. Orton.
 
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“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ronald E. Osborn
 
Ronald Edwin Osborn was born on 5 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became a Christian reverend. Ronald Edwin Osborn passed on at 81 years of age on 1 October 1998 in Lane County, Oregon, United States of America.
 
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“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood
 
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become a labor of love. They love what they do.” -Charles Osgood
 
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
 
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“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” -Mirabel Osler
 
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler
 
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919): “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 best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
 
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
 
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” -William Osler
 
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.” -Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Canadian Physician, Medical Historian
 
“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” -William Osler
 
“What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.” -William Osler
 
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.” -William Osler
 
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.” -William Osler
 
William Osler was born on 12 July 1849 in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada. He became a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England.
 
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“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.” -Marie Osmond
 
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You have to take the good
with the bad, smile when
you are sad, love what
you’ve got and remember
what you had. Always
forgive but not forget,
learn from your mistake
but never regret, people
change, things go wrong,
just remember life goes on.
-Joel Osteen
 
“You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” -Joel Osteen
 
Joel Osteen was born in 1963. He is a writer, a televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Mister Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches more than seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in more than one hundred countries.
 
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“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Otto
 
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“You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.” -Jim Otto
 
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“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.” -Jesse Owens
 
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
 
“One chance is all you need.” -Jesse Owens
 
James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens was born on 12 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, United States of America. He became a professional athlete. In 1935, he set six track and field world records in less than one hour. James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens passed on at 66 years of age on 31 March 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
 
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“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the Earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” -John Owen
 
John Owen was born in 1616. John Owen passed on in 1683.
 
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Quotations by Authors Pa through Pz

2/14/2020

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“My life is like one long obstacle course with me being the chief obstacle.” -Jack Paar
 
Jack Harold Paar was born on 1 May 1918 in Canton, Ohio, United States of America. He became a writer, a talk show host, and a comedian. He is known for being the host of the television talk show program, “The Tonight Show” (1957 - 1962). Jack Harold Paar passed on at 85 years of age on 27 January 2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.” -Clementine Paddleford
 
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“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.” -Ignace Paderewski
 
Ignace Paderewski was born in 1860. Ignace Paderewski passed on in 1941.
 
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“Don’t scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.” -Douglas Pagels
 
Douglas Pagels was born in 1950.
 
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” -Satchel Paige
 
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” -attributed to Satchel Paige
 
Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige was born in 1906. He became an American baseball player, and pitched in several leagues, including Major League Baseball. Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige passed on in 1982.
 
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“If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.” -Thomas Paine
 
“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.” -Thomas Paine

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” -Thomas Paine

“Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” -Thomas Paine

“The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.” -Thomas Paine
 
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily . . .” -Thomas Paine
 
“We have it in our power to begin the world again.” -Thomas Paine
 
Thomas Paine, spelled ‘Pane’ before 1774, was born in 1737. He was a British-born American. He became a political theorist, a political writer, and a political pamphleteer. He is known as the author of “Common Sense” (1776). Thomas Paine passed on in 1809.
 
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are stacked against you.” -Arnold Palmer

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.” -Arnold Palmer
 
Arnold Daniel Palmer 1929. Arnold Daniel Palmer passed on in 2016.
 
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“She felt . . . well, not beautiful, but something better: knowing she didn’t have to be.” -Mary C. Pangborn
 
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“For every beauty, there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth, there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love, there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” -Ivan Panin
 
Ivan Panin was born in 1855. Ivan Panin passed on in 1942.
 
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“The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
 
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“There is entirely too much charm around and something must be done to stop it.” -Dorothy Parker: ‘These Much Too Charming People’ in “The New Yorker” (1928) magazine
 
“They sicken of the calm that know the storm.” -Dorothy Parker
 
“To keep something, you must care for it - to care for it you must understand what kind of care it requires.” -Dorothy Parker
 
Dorothy Parker was born as Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 in Long Beach, New Jersey, United States of America. She became a short-story writer, a poet, a screenwriter, a humorist, a critic, and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Dorothy Parker passed on at 73 years of age on 7 June 1967 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
 
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“No man is so great as mankind.” -Theodore Parker
 
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“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” -C. Northcote Parkinson
 
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, also known as C. Northcote Parkinson, was born in 1909. He was an English writer. Cyril Northcote Parkinson passed on in 1993.
 
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“Little things console us because little things afflict us.” -Blaise Pascal

“The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know.” -Blaise Pascal: “Pensées” (English: “Thoughts”) (1670), ‘Section IV: On the Means of the Belief,’ number 680
 
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” -Blaise Pascal
 
Blaise Pascal was born in 1623. He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, moralist, and a Christian theologian. Blaise Pascal passed on in 1662.
 
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“Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.” -Boris Pasternak
 
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” -Boris Pasternak
 
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in 1890. He was a Russian writer. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak passed on in 1960.
 
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“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur: lecture (1854)

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. He was a French chemist and microbiologist. He is known as the inventor of the pasteurization process. Louis Pasteur passed on in 1895.
 
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“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” -Joe Paterno
 
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“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.” -Alan Paton

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.” -Alan Paton
 
“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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“Concentration is everything. On the day I’m performing, I don’t hear anything anyone says to me.” -Luicano Pavarotti
 
Luicano Pavarotti was born in 1935.
 
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“Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.” -Paxton
 
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“That’s what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!” -Minnie Pearl
 
Minnie Pearl is a pseudonym of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who was born on 25 October 1912. Sarah Ophelia Colley passed on in 1996.
 
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“Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.” -Hesketh Pearson
 
Hasketh Pearson was born in 1887. Hasketh Pearson passed on in 1964.
 
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“Why are aliens always portrayed as evil in movies? How do we know that there isn’t an alien out there just waiting to share the recipe for, ‘The Universe’s Best Waffle Mix’?” -Kevin Peck
 
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“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening.” -M. Scott Peck
 
Morgan Scott Peck, also known as M. Scott Peck, was born on 22 May 1936 New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a psychiatrist and a writer. He is known as the author of the book, “The Road Less Traveled” (1978). Morgan Scott Peck passed on at 69 years of age on 25 September 2005 in Connecticut, United States of America.
 
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
-George Peele
 
George Peele was born in about 1558. George Peele passed on in about 1597.
 
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“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
 
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“Always rise from the table with an appetite and you will never sit down without one.” -William Penn
 
“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.” -William Penn
 
“Knowledge is the treasure but judgment the treasurer of a wise man.” -William Penn
 
“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” -William Penn

“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.” -William Penn
 
“We have a call to do good as often as we have the power and occasion.” -William Penn
 
William Penn was born in 1644. He became a Quaker leader and an advocate of religious freedom. He oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe. William Penn passed on in 1718.
 
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“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.” -Alexander Penney
 
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“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” -J. C. Penney

“I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.” -J. C. Penney

James Cash Penney, Junior was born in 1875. He was an American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded J. C. Penney. In 1898, he began working for a small chain of stores in the western United States called the Golden Rule stores. In 1902, owners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, impressed by his work ethic and salesmanship, offered him one-third partnership in a new store he would open. Penney invested $2,000 and moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, to open a store there. He participated in opening two more stores, and when Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership in 1907, he purchased full interest in all three stores. James Cash Penney, Junior passed on in 1971.
 
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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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“Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.” -Ross Perot
 
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“He conquers who endures.” -Persius
 
Aulus Persius Flaccus, also known simply as Persius, was born on C.E. 4 December 34 in Volterra, Italy. He became a Roman poet and a satirist. Aulus Persius Flaccus, also known simply as Persius, passed on in C.E. 62 in Rome, Italy.
 
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“The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.” -Peter G. Peterson
 
Peter G. Peterson was born in 1926.
 
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“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.” -Francesco Petrarch: as quoted in Bergen Evans: “Dictionary of Quotations” (1968)
 
Francesco Petrarca, also known as Petrarch, was born on 20 July 1304. He was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy. He is known for developing the concept of the ‘Dark Ages.’ Francesco Petrarca passed on at 69 years of age on 19 July 1374.
 
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“He has gone over to the majority.” -Petronius
 
“We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” -Petronius (about C.E. 60)
 
Petronius Arbiter, also known simply as Petronius, was a courtier during the reign of Nero in ancient Rome. He is generally believed to be the author of the “Satyricon,” a satirical novel possibly written during the Neronian era.
 
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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” -Austin Phelps
 
Austin Phelps was born on 7 January 1820 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian pastor and a college professor and president of Andover Theological Seminary. Austin Phelps passed on at 70 years of age on 13 October 1890 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America.
 
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“If happiness truly consists in physical ease and freedom of care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” -William Lyon Phelps

“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality.” -William Lyon Phelps
 
William Lyon Phelps was born on 2 January 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. He was an American educator and journalist. William Lyon Phelps passed on at 78 years of age on 21 August 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, 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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“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” -Frederick Phillips
 
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“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.” -Wendell Phillips
 
Wendell Phillips was born on 29 November 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an orator (public speaker). He opened a law practice in 1834 in Boston. Wendell Phillips passed on in 1884.
 
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“Funny thing, but we always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks.” -Eden Phillpotts
 
Eden Phillpotts was born in 1862. Eden Phillpotts passed on in 1960.
 
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“If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.” -Marge Piercy
 
Marge Piercy was born on 31 March 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. She is a poet and a novelist. 
 
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“Life is what we make it and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.” -Albert Pike
 
“To hear patiently, to weigh deliberately and dispassionately, and to decide impartially; these are the chief duties of a Judge.” -Albert Pike
 
Albert Pike was born on 29 December 1809. He was an American lawyer, soldier, journalist, and writer. He is the only Confederate military officer to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, District of Columbia (in Judiciary Square). Albert Pike passed on at 81 years of age on 2 April 1891.
 
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“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” -Robert M. Pirsig
 
“We’re in such a hurry most of the time that we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.” -Robert M. Pirsig
 
Robert Maynard Pirsig was born on 6 September 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He is an American philosopher and writer.
 
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“The day, water, Sun, Moon, night . . . I do not have to purchase these things with money.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
 
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.” -Titus Maccius Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus was born in about 254 B.C.E. He was a Roman comic dramatist. He is known as the author of ‘Palliata Comoedia.’ Titus Maccius Plautus passed on in about 184 B.C.E.
 
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“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations of words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.” -Plotinus
 
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.” -Plotinus
 
Plotinus was born in about C.E. 205. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. He is known for his three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. Plotinus passed on at about 65 years of age in C.E. 270.
 
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.” -Jules Henri Poincaré
 
Jules Henri Poincaré, also known simply as Henri Poincaré, was born on 29 April 1854. He was a French mathematician and theoretical physicist. Jules Henri Poincaré passed on at 58 years of age on 17 July 1912.
 
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“Work is what you do so that some time you won’t have to do it anymore.” -Alfred Polgar
 
Alfred Polgar was born in 1873. He became an essayist. Alfred Polgar passed on in 1955.
 
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All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
-Alexander Pope: “An Essay on Man,” Epistle i, line 284
 
“Some people will never learn anything, because they understand everything too soon.” -Alexander Pope

“Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.” -Alexander Pope: “An 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, and was lame from birth. He was an English satirist and poet who wrote in heroic couplet forms and satirical verses. He is known for his translation of “Homer” into English. Alexander Pope passed away on 30 May 1744.
 
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“Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.” -Karl Popper
 
Karl Popper was born in 1902. He was an Austrian-born British philosopher of science. Karl Popper passed on in 1994.
 
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“They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own.” -Antonio Porchia

“A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.” -Antonio Porchia: “Voces” (1943), as translated from Spanish by W. S. Merwin
 
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” -Antonio Porchia
 
Antonio Porchia was born on 13 November 1885. He was an Italian poet. Antonio Porchia passed on in 1968.
 
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“What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.” -Eleanor H. Porter: “Pollyanna” (1912)
 
Eleanor H. Porter was born in 1868. Eleanor H. Porter passed on in 1920.
 
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“The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.” -Ezra Pound
 
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. He was an American expatriate writer, a poet, and a critic who lived in Asia. His best-known works include “Ripostes” (1912), “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic “The Cantos” (1917 - 1969). Ezra Weston Loomis Pound passed on at 87 years of age on 1 November 1972.
 
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“We have to stop constantly criticizing, which is the way of the malcontent, and instead get back to the can-do attitude that made America.” -Colin Powell
 
Colin Powell was born in 1937.
 
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“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” -Eleanor Powell
 
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“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.” -Terry Pratchett
 
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” -Terry Pratchett
 
Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. He became a fantasy novelist. Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett passed on at 66 years of age on 12 March 2015 in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England.
 
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“If anyone wants to understand the course of man on Earth he must consider the fact of the long pause, three million years on the level of savagery, ten thousand years on the level of dependence on the fruits of hand labor, and a hundred or a hundred and fifty years of sudden sharp rise. One hundred or 150 years is the time included in what we call progress in man’s history.” -E. Parmalee Prentice
 
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“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.” -George D. Prentice: “Prenticeana” (1860)
 
George Dennison Prentice was born in 1802. George Dennison Prentice passed on in 1870.

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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 great doing of little things makes the great life.” -Eugenia Price

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“She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small mysterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.” -Nancy Price

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“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.” -J. B. Priestley
 
“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.” -J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, also known as J. B. Priestley, was born in 1894. John Boynton Priestley passed on in 1984.

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“Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Work in this view: makes you honest with yourself requires that you develop your faculties and skills empowers you to do what you are really good at and love to do connects you in a compassionate way with the outside world supports the philosophy of non-destructiveness and sustainability and integrates work with personal life and community.” -Roger Pritchard
 
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“As an inducement to hard work and economy nothing beats a big family.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
“Ignorance is a voluntary condition.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
 
Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior was born on 19 May 1897 in Wilton, Wisconsin, United States of America. He became a banker, an event toastmaster, and a writer. Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior passed on at 101 years of age on 29 September 1998 in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
 
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust
 
“Like everybody who is not in love he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.” -Marcel Proust
 
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
 
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” -Marcel Proust
 
Marcel Proust was born in 1871. He was a French novelist. Marcel Proust passed on in 1922.
 
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“You don’t have to be smart. You don’t have to be beautiful. All you have to do is be yourself.” -Richard Pryor
 
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born on 1 December 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, United States of America. He became a stand-up comedian and an actor. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor passed on at 65 years of age on 10 December 2005 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
 
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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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Dance like there’s nobody watching,
     love like you’ll never be hurt.
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
     and live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
-William W. Purkey
 
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“Fear and worry are just the misuse of the creative powers we originally got to dream.” -Jannie Putter
 
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“And now for something completely different.” -Monty Python

“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
 
“If life seems jolly rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten! And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing . . .” -Monty Python

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Quotations by Authors Qa through Qz

2/13/2020

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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

2/12/2020

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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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“All you need lies within you.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
 
“As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
 
“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher

“Change of any sort requires courage.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
 
Mary Anne Radmacher was born on 28 June 1957 in Portland, Oregon, United States of America. She is a writer. Website: http://www.MaryAnneRadmacher.net/.
 
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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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“Faith and optimism are contagious.” -Thom S. Rainer
 
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“All your life you have heard yourself denounced; not for your faults but for your greatest virtues. You have been hated not for your mistakes but for your achievements. You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest.” -Ayn Rand
 
“America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.” -Ayn Rand
 
Ayn Rand was born in 1905. She was a Russian-born American writer. Ayn Rand passed on in 1982.
 
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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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“Not a day passes over this Earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.” -Charles Reed
 
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“If we all tried to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.” -Myrtle Reed
 
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“This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.” -Scott Reed
 
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“Some people have such open minds that nothing stays in them long.” -J. Tudor Rees
 
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“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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“If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.” -R. Reese
 
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“You make a choice or set a goal and let people know about it. Then just getting started leads to the discovery of internal resources that help us to go further than we ever thought we could.” -Christopher Reeve: “Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life” (2002)
 
Christopher D’Olier Reeve was born on 25 September 1952 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an actor. He is known for his portrayal of the fictional character Superman. Christopher D’Olier Reeve passed on at 52 years of age on 10 October 2004 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States of America.
 
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“You can if you think you can.” -George Reeves (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
 
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“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” -Keanu Reeves
 
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“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.” -Orson Rega

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“Don’t overlook the obvious.” -Verna Reid

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“Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated.” -G. Richard Reiger: as quoted in “Attitudes of Gratitude,” page 39

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“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.” -Jules Renard
 
“The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.” -Jules Renard
 
Pierre-Jules Renard, also known simply as Jules Renard, was born on 22 February 1864 in Châlons-du-Maine, Mayenne, France. He became a novelist and a dramatist. Pierre-Jules Renard passed on at 46 years of age on 22 May 1910 in Paris, France.
 
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“The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.” -Agnes Repplier
 
Agnes Repplier was born on 1 April 1858 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an essayist. Agnes Repplier passed on at 92 years of age on 15 December 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
 
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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
 
Mary Lou ‘Loo’ Retton was born on 24 January 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America. She became an 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 became a businessman, a diamond mining magnate, and a 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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“You are what you think you are.” -Bob Richards
 
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“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.” -Mary Caroline Richards: “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” (2011), page 41
 
“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.” -Mary Caroline Richards: “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” (2011), page 8
 
Mary Caroline Richards was born in 1916. She was an American teacher, poet, and potter. Mary Caroline Richards passed on in 1999.
 
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“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.” -Stephen Richards
 
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“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“A scholar knows no boredom.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night.” -Jean Paul Richter
 
“No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.” -Jean Paul Richter

“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.” -Jean Paul Richter: “Titan” (1803)

“What a father says to his children is not heard by the world but it will be heard by posterity.” -Jean Paul Richter

“Women cure all their sorrows by talking.” -Jean Paul Richter

Jean Paul Richter is a pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, who was born on 21 March 1763 in Wunsiedel, Holy Roman Empire (now Wunsiedel, Germany). He became a humor novelist. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter passed on at 62 years of age on 14 November 1825 in Bayreuth, German Confederation (now Bayreuth, Germany).
 
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“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence.” -Edward Rickenbacker
 
“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” -Edward Rickenbacker
 
Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker was born on 8 October 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. He became an American fighter pilot with the rank of captain during World War 1, and later a businessman. Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker passed on at 82 years of age on 23 July 1973 in Zürich, Switzerland.
 
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“Have you ever watched a stone cutter at work? He will hammer at a rock for perhaps 100 times without a crack showing on it. Then, at the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before it as well.” -Jacob A. Riis
 
“The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” -Jacob A. Riis
 
“When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.” -Jacob A. Riis

Jacob August Riis was born in 1849. He was a photographer and a reporter. Jacob August Riis passed on in 1914.
 
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“Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.” -James Whitcomb Riley
 
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“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” -Pat Riley
 
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” -Pat Riley

“Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.” -Pat Riley
 
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -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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“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, also known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was born on 4 December 1875 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He became a German poet and novelist. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke passed on at 51 years of age on 29 December 1926 in Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.
 
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“Believe it or not.” -R. L. Ripley
 
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How a minority,
     Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
     Hates a minority.
-Leonard H. Robbins: “Minorities”
 
Leonard H. Robbins was born in 1877. He was an American writer. Leonard H. Robbins passed on in 1947.
 
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“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert
 
Cavett Robert was born 14 November 1907 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America. In 1973, he founded the National Speakers Association. Cavett Robert passed on at 89 years of age on 15 September 1997.
 
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“Seek your joy in what you give and not in what you get.” -Evan Roberts
 
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“There is nothing wrong with dreaming, so let the dreamers dream on. But for those who are realistic about making money and becoming financially secure, you have to set realistic goals and work towards meeting those goals.” -John M. Roberts
 
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“Shared grief diminishes, but shared joy increases.” -Spider Robinson
 
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“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.” -Sylvia Robinson
 
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“There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.” -Victor Robinson
 
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“There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.” -Clarence F. Robison
 
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“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 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. He became a financier and a philanthropist. John Davison Rockefeller, Junior passed on at 86 years of age on 11 May 1960 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
 
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“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” -John D. Rockefeller
 
“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build.” -John D. Rockefeller: as quoted in Allen Nevins: “Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller,” volume 1
 
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” -John D. Rockefeller: as attributed in Peter Collier and David Horowitz: “The Rockefellers” (1976)
 
John Davison Rockefeller, Senior was born on 8 July 1839. He became an industrialist and a philanthropist. In 1870, he co-founded the Standard Oil Company. John Davison Rockefeller, Senior passed on at 97 years of age on 23 May 1937.
 
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“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” -Rikki Rogers
 
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“Within most human beings lies a great resource normally untapped, but there, waiting to be summoned up in moments of stress. Call it strength, courage - whatever it is, it pulls us through against the longest odds.” -Ruth Roman: commenting after the rescue at sea of herself and her son, following the sinking of the ship “Andrea Doria”
 
Ruth Roman was born in 1922. She was an American actress. Ruth Roman passed on in 1999.
 
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“The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.” -John Rooney
 
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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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“Anything is possible but only a few things actually happen.” -Richard Rosen
 
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“Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.” -Sam Rosen
 
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“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
 
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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
 
Ruth Miriam Ross, also known as Ruth Miriam Burnard, was born as Ruth Miriam Guscott in 1920 in Wanganui, Wanganui, New Zealand. She became a historian. Ruth Miriam Ross passed on at about 62 years of age 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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“If you’re unwilling to leave someplace you’ve outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don’t stand still, leap forward.” -Ronda Rousey
 
Ronda Rousey is an American professional wrestler.
 
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” -Joseph Roux: “Meditations of a Parish Priest” (1866), Part 9, LIV
 
Joseph Roux was born on 19 April 1834. He was a French Catholic parish priest, a poet, and a philologist. Joseph Roux passed on in February 1905.
 
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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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