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Even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.-- Mort Crim

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear -- Cesare Pavese

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Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. -- Dale E. Turner

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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. -- Richard Bach

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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own. -- Mark Victor Hansen

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. -- Thomas Jefferson

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...failure is implicit in the arts and in virtually any endeavor that leads to a satisfactory life. You try things, you fall on your face, you figure out what went wrong, you go back and try them again. -- Jules Feiffer

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mohandas Gandhi

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Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. -- Bill Copeland

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Laughter is as intimate as you can get without touching someone. -- Gina Barreca

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The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. -- Morris Dees

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. -- Martin Scorsese

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To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without source, a tree without a root. -- Chinese Proverb

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes

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The most sophisticated people I know -- inside they are all children. -- Jim Henson

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said. -- "Silent Cal" Coolidge

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? -- Dale Carnegie

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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. -- Erma Bombeck

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as you. -- George Bernard Shaw

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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. -- William Penn

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. -- Solomon Ibn Gabriol

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We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -- James Freeman Clarke

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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. -- James Allen

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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

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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

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I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. -- Charles R. Swindoll

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. -- Plutarch