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  • Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Medgar Evers You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
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  • Alexander Herzen You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Jerry Garcia You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Kahlil Gibran You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Walt Disney You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Zig Ziglar You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Robert Anthony You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Charles F. Kettering You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Buddha You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Joseph Addison Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Haythum R. Khalid All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
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  • Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • W. H. Auden ''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher ''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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