5:36 PM 6/20/2004

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend
against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun
whose rays soften the coldest day.

-- Og Mandino
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Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference.

-- Nolan Bushnell
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If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

-- David Viscott
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

-- John F. Kennedy
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The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings
to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the
lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher


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At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

-- Christopher Reeve (1952-) American Actor

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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the
inside.

-- Brian Tracy

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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in
our life, or in the life of another.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer


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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972
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The truth is always better than the best dressed lie.

-- Ann Landers, born 1918

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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he
acts when he loses money.

-- New England Proverb


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Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

-- John McCain
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!

-- Jonathan Winters
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous
circumstances, would have lain dormant.

-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a
sheep.

-- Arab proverb

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Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what
makes it permanent.

-- Marilyn vos Savant 1946-NA


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Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.

-- Stanley Horowitz
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Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.


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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things.

-- Robert Brault
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help
them become what they are capable of becoming.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-- English proverb

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test.

-- Elbert Hubbard
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Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great
values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are
the most stable things in our lives.

-- Jesse Herman Holmes
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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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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly,
one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

-- William H. Sheldon


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Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are
motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer
unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

-- Jim Collins,

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Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear
conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way
to usefulness and high achievement.

-- Grover Cleveland

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There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the
hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never
capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to
prevail."

-- Jim Collins, from his book, Good to Great
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A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on
the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of
continuing to develop long after most s have muffled themselves
in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.

-- Aldous Huxley

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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

-- Mencius (371-291 B.C.)


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Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.

-- French Proverb


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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at
the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

-- Anonymous