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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

-- Vince Lombardi

If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse.

-- Naomi, 15 Advice from Kids

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Genius is eternal patience.

-- Michelangelo

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

--Oscar Levant

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Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

-- Irene Kassorla

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It is important to start...start from right where you are.

-- Wally Amos

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

-- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), British theologian and classicist

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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

-- Garrison Keillor

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A phoneless cord.

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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

-- Elizabeth Bibesco

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Like an angel or an earthquake, it isn't there and then it is; it doesn't steal over us and suffuse us with a festive spirit like the gradual effects of alcohol or good deeds.

-- Barbara Peters Smith, "Gladness Descends on Her Home", Sarasota Herald Tribune, December 27, 2003

I have NO idea what the full article was like.

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The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.

-- Confucius

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The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

-- Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

-- Robert Browning

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Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

-- Euripides

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It matters not what goal you seek
Its secret here reposes:
You've got to dig from week to week
To get Results or Roses.

-- Edgar Guest

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...have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

-- Harold E. Stassen

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What's that Russian saying? "How do you make God Laugh? - Tell him your plans." It's kind of true.

-- Joseph Fiennes

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All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone;
We must speak of other matters:
You can be me when I'm gone
Flowers gathered in the evening,
Afternoon they blossom on;
Still are withered by the evening:
You can be me when I'm gone.

--Neil Gaiman

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

-- William Shakespeare

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Ah, to have found anyone in this wilderness would have been miracle enough but to have found you - ah, this is too improbable. I don't believe in you. You're an illusion. You'll vanish before my eyes.

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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

-- Robert Southey

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Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.

-- John Richelsen

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You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

-- Dorothy Parker

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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

-- Abigail Adams

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When something good happens, it's a miracle, and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

-- Quoted by Don Forsling on his show 8/26/04 as his thought for the day.

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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

-- Phillips Brooks

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

-- Confucious

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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

-- Seneca

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

-- George Santayana, "The Life of Reason: Reason in Society", 1906

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

-- Oscar Wilde

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How could I be expected to govern a country that has 301 different types of cheese?

-- Charles de Gaulle

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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

-- Confucius

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965

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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

-- President Ronald Reagan

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Four things greater than all things are,

- Women and Horses and Power and War.

-- Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of the King's Jest,"
stanza 5, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling:
Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads, vol. 25, p. 234, (1941)

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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

-- Robert F. Kennedy

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Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

-- Propertius

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Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

-- James Harvey Robinson

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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

-- John Steinbeck

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If you cannot learn the language of Gratitude you will never be on speaking terms with Happiness.

-- Anonymous

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The power of gratitude lies in your ability to shift your focus to what is going right in your life.

-- Lucy MacDonald

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Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

-- F.W. Faber

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

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As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once, and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt, because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

-- Anonymous

It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

-- Anonymous

I triple guarantee you. There are no American infidels in Baghdad.

-— Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (AKA "Baghdad Bob")

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If in this troubled world we can produce enough properly guided people, we won't need guided missiles.

-- General David Shoup, U.S.M.C.

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No one will ever get out of this world alive. Maintain a reasonable sense of values!

Remember "Character is Destiny!"

Good health is everyone's major source of wealth!

Resolve to be cheerful and helpful. People will repay you in kind!

Avoid angry, abrasive people. They are generally vengeful!

Avoid zealots. They are generally without humor!

Start off the day with a smile - read the comics first!

Strive to become the type of person your parents hoped for when you were small. Many do not turn out that way!

ALWAYS do the right thing and tell the truth. Your kids will tell the story of your life!

Listen more and talk less. No one ever learns anything by talking!

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these!

Do not equate money and power with success. Those who value money and power are often miserable failures as human beings. What matters most about success is how it is achieved!

Far better it is to dare mighty things...