Quotes to think about...

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And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood

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"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
~Babe Ruth

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"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

Dick Cavett

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

Franklin P. Jones

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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Gracie Allen

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"To write with a broken pencil is pointless."

~Unknown

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"Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups."

~Unknown

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Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there."

~Andrew Mercer

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"You may delay, but time will not."

~Benjamin Franklin

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"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

~Walt Whitman

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Procrastination: The art of keeping up with yesterday.

~Author Unknown

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"When you win, you hear from everybody. When you lose, you hear from your friends." --President Richard Nixon

"Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance." --actor Kevin Kline ("Professor William Hundert") in the film The Emperor's Club

"Some Day Never Comes." --title of a song by Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR)

"Who'll Stop the Rain?" --title of a song by Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR)

"Know thyself." --Socrates

"The truth lies in the middle of two extremes." --Aristotle

"The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." --actor Leonard Nimoy ("Spock") in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them." --philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder." --Plato

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth- look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment." --philosopher Soren Kierkegaard

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love." --Voltaire

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose." --Voltaire

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." --Voltaire

"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." --President Franklin Roosevelt

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." --President Richard Nixon

"Man looks in the abyss. There's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that's what keeps him out of the abyss." --actor Hal Holbrook ("Lou Manheim") in the film Wall Street

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy." --Robert Half, entrepreneur

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." --Aristotle

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." --President John Quincy Adams

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If today were a check, could you cash it? - unknown

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"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

~Plautus

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"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."

~Everett Dirksen

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"Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."

~Simon Travaglia

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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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"Better to be poor and right than wrong and rich."

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"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."

~Ira Gassen

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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

~William James

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Happy moments, praise God
Difficult moments, seek God
Quiet moments, worship God
Painful moments, trust God
Every moment, thank God

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Maybe it's true...maybe we don't know what we have until we've lost it...but, maybe it's also true that we don't know what we're missing until we find it.