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Be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity. ~ Horace Mann

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 Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~ Abraham Lincoln

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Let us endeavor so to live that, when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry. ~ Mark Twain

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 If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller. ~ H. Jackson Brown

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 Great Potential is one of life's heaviest burdens. ~ Byrd Baggett

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It is possible to commit no mistake and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life. ~ Jean Luc Picard [From Star Trek]

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 Isaac Asimov when asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: "Type faster."

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When you open your mind to possibilities, there is no closing it again. ~ Tracy Kelley

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 We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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Judgmentalism requires far less mental effort than empathy. ~ Tracy Kelley

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 Truth exists, only falsehood has to be constructed. ~ Georges Braque

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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE FOR SUCCESS IN ANYTHING: "Do what you should do, when you should do it." ~ Adaptation of a Thomas Huxley Quote

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 Definition of Motivation: “To provide a meaningful reason to do something.” ~ Douglas R. Kelley

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Futility is the great destroyer of potential. ~ Dr. Elle Hutchins, 2019

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 Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~ Abraham Lincoln

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One mans magic is another mans engineering. Supernatural is a null word. ~ Robert Heinlein

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 It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ~ Elinor Smith Sullivan, Early 20th Century Aviatrix

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Preconceived notions are the locks on the doors to knowledge. ~ Mary Browne

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 Perseverance always wins. Who is more persistent? You? Or the problem? ~ Douglas R. Kelley

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Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also very full of the overcoming of it. ~ Helen Keller

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 Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. ~ Nathaniel Branden

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~ Voltaire

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 When you give up your own truth to win at someone else's game, everyone loses. ~ Stephen Paul

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ~ Plato

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 		 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~ Norman Cousins

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