tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79913100702251539852024-03-18T06:19:15.769-07:00"Quotes" for TeachersFamous Quotes to Inspire and Motivate your Students!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-79223162155821651042011-06-30T10:41:00.008-07:002015-04-02T16:53:36.994-07:00Welcome to Quotes for Teachers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-76451501379170324992011-06-19T14:01:00.013-07:002011-07-04T12:10:02.787-07:00Favorite Quotes<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Judy Garland </span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Lou Holtz </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ann Landers</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Chinese Proverb</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Dale Carnegie </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Franklin D. Roosevelt </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."</span></i></b><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you judge people, you have no time to love them.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mother Teresa</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ryunosuke Satoro</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learning is not a spectator sport.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-D Blocher</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Margaret Fuller</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Goethe</span></blockquote><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Abraham Lincoln </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It always seems impossible until it is done.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Nelson Mandela </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b><i>From what we get, we can make a living; from what we give, however, makes a life.</i></b></span><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Arthur Ashe</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Dalai Lama </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.</b></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Elbert Hubbard</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-George Burns </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Lloyd Jones </span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Woodin</span></div></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brillian, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Marianne Williamson </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Louisa May Alcott </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Groucho Marx</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Dr. Seuss</span> </blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b><i>It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.</i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with and open one.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Malcolm S. Forbes </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. </span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Margaret Meade</span></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry Ford </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness and generosity.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Nathaniel Branden </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit.</span><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Aristotle</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Brandi Snyder</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Margaret Carty </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Hazlitt</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?</span><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.</span></i></b><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.</span></b></i></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry Ford</span></div></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teamwork divides that tasks and multiplies the success.</span></i></b><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Be the change you want to see in the world.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Mahatma Gandhi </span></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson </span></blockquote>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-88501265440463647122000-10-15T08:25:00.000-07:002011-10-15T08:26:36.910-07:00Quotes in Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4YqvhiQ2LJjJhe35JDJ2FIXAA54HBA_MTcFU_kBCoXY5KUDNVkRwKA-6nwVeQnkUzx3pVdWJX0rqV2lQfj7WFEn7F2pKt3YhAVrd39krRJcropEAtmKFAxEXb89yYXwmxfrCptc76Ho/s1600/Always+be+a+first+Rate+Version+of+Yourself+Quote.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4YqvhiQ2LJjJhe35JDJ2FIXAA54HBA_MTcFU_kBCoXY5KUDNVkRwKA-6nwVeQnkUzx3pVdWJX0rqV2lQfj7WFEn7F2pKt3YhAVrd39krRJcropEAtmKFAxEXb89yYXwmxfrCptc76Ho/s320/Always+be+a+first+Rate+Version+of+Yourself+Quote.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alan Simpson</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Character is much easier kept than recovered.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thomas Paine </span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-French Proverb</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Bert Murray</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Will Rogers</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day; and by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Frank Crane</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jean Paul Richter</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Elbert Hubbard</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alphonse Karr</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Author Unknown</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Lao-Tzu</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">-</b>Chinese Proverb</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></i></b></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span></i></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Arnot</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">-</b>Will Durant</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Bodie Thorne</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Arnold H. Glasow</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Abraham Lincoln</span></blockquote></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The time is always right to do what is right. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Martin Luther King Jr.</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Harriet Woods</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.</span></i></b><br />
<div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Oprah Winfrey</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-George Eliot</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Steinbeck</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-George Bernard Shaw</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Leo Tolstoy</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Welsh Proverb</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Adlai Stevenson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.</span></i></b><br />
<div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Safire</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Lubbock</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-James D. Miles</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Shakespeare</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Rwandan Proverb</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.</span></i></b></div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mario Cuomo</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Confucius</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-David Star Jordan </span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-German Proverb </span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Socrates</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></i></b></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thomas Carlyle</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A half truth is a whole lie.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Yiddish Proverb</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Bill Copeland</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Tad Williams</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thomas Jefferson</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Winston Churchill</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Richard Needham</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Arthur Dobrin</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Brault</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Booker T. Washington</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Lemony Snicket</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Blake</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Leo Tolstoy</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Denis Diderot</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Shakespeare</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry David Thoreau</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Ruskin</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-George Bernard Shaw</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Emile Zola</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Stacia Tauscher</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>While we try to teach our children all about life, </i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Our children teach us what life is all about. </i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Angela Schwindt</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Brault</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Phyllis Diller</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Frank A. Clark</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Frederick Douglass</span></blockquote><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Walt Streightiff</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The best preparation for being a happy and useful man or woman is to live fully as a child.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The Plowden Report </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other is wings.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Hodding Carter</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Dr. Joyce Brothers</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jane Howard</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Letty Cottin Pogrebin</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Brault</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Elizabeth Stone</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.</i></b></span><br />
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<blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Your children need your presence more than your presents.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jesse Jackson</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Fulghum</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert A. Heinlein</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Roger Lewin</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Marilyn Penland</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>You will always be your child's favorite toy.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Vicki Lansky</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-P.D. James</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mignon McLaughlin</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Haim Ginott</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jean Kerr</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Kids spell love T-I-M-E.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Crudele</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Sloan Wilson</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Clarence Day</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>I am not young enough to know everything.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Oscar Wilde</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Andrew Holmes</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Frank A. Clark</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Brault</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. but when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much he had learned in seven years.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Yoda</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Fred G. Gosman</span></blockquote><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Stephanie Martson</span></blockquote><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William G. Defoore</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Barbara Walters</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Dr. Joyce Brothers</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Children, no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will be fine when they grow up does no good at all.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Saul </span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Franklin P. Jones</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Harold Hulbert</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Pearl S. Buck</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jim Trelease</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Margaret Atwood</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Pablo Picasso</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Stella Adler</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Leonardo da Vinci</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Issac Bashevis Singer</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Great art picks up where nature ends.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Marc Chagall</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Georgia O'Keefe</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?</b></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Pablo Picasso</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Art disturbs, science reassures.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Georges Braque</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons i</i></b>t.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Paul Valery</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.</b></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alfred Tonnelle</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Aristotle</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><b><i> A man paints with his brains and not with his hands</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">.</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Michelangelo</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Brault</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known.</i></b></span><br />
<div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Oscar Wilde</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer, Art is all the rest.</i></b> </span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Donald E. Knuth</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="body" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="body" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Hedy Lamarr</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="body"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.</i></b></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thomas Merton</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="body"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.</i></b></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Vincent Van Gogh</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Novalis</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.</b></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Scott Adams</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry Ward Beecher</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert Schumann</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Berthold Auerbach</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Music is what feelings sound like.</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.</b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alphonse de Lamartine</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Music is the universal language of mankind.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>We know an age more vividly through its music than through its historians.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Rosanne Ambrose-Brown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Edward Elgar</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.</b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jean Paul Richter</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Alas for those that never sing,<br />
But die with all their music in them!</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Oliver Wendell Holmes</span></blockquote><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Do you have a quote to add? Please comment!</span></b> </div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-2578689966181877402000-06-24T15:52:00.005-07:002011-09-28T11:24:49.200-07:00Books and Reading<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">A book is a gift you can open again and again.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Garrison Keillor</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Emilie Buchwald</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Harry S. Truman</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"> Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Margaret Fuller</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Mason Cooley</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Dr. Seuss </span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Toni Morrison</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Anna Quindlen</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Henry Ward Beecher</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Wear the old coat and buy the new book.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Austin Phelps</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Charles W. Eliot</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"> <b><i>Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Groucho Marx</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Groucho Marx</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Andrew Ross</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)</span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Chinese Proverb</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-William Hazlitt</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Paul Sweeny</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"> Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Jessamyn West</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><i><b> Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life</b></i>.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Helen Exley</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"> When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Clifton Fadiman</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-William Styron</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-William Lyon Phelps</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><b><i>A house without books is like a room without windows</i></b>.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Heinrich Mann</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Never judge a book by its movie.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-J.W. Eagan</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Richard Steele</span></blockquote><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.</span></b></i><br />
<div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Kathleen Norris</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><b><i><span class="body">Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.</span> </i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Maya Angelou</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><br />
</span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Katherine Patterson </span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Francis Bacon</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Chinese Proverb</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat."</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Stephen Wright</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">P.J. O'Rourke </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"> </span><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">-Lord Chesterfield</span></blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">(I included that last one because I think it would be amusing to put it in front of a group of third graders and see how long it takes them to figure out what the author is talking about.) </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Do you have a quote to add? Please comment!</span></b></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-78508192346092406872000-06-24T15:49:00.096-07:002011-09-28T11:23:29.239-07:00Attitude, Optimism, and Happiness<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Gerald Jampolsky</span></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">trading</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>what you want the most for what you want now.</i><br />
</b></span></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-Zig Ziglar</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."</i></b></span></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-Dale Carnegie</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.</i></b></span></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-Buddha</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.</i></b></span></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-Allan K. Chalmers</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you.</i></b></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> -Nathaniel Hawthorne</span></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.</i></b></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-Burton Hills</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Abraham Lincoln </span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Bloom where you're planted. Take nothing for granted.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-author unknown </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>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 which as been opened for us.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Helen Keller</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i>I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.</i></b></span></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #b45f06; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-Martha Washington</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-James M. Barrie</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Ruth E Renkel </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Grandma Moses</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with man's outward circumstance...A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-William Barclay</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Wayne Dyer</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Dave Gardner</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Wilfred A. Peterson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Lin Yutang</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Zig Ziglar</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Winston Churchill</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">connect</span> us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> -Earl Nightingale</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The greatest discovery of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">my generation</span> is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-William James</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">events</span> to yourself.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Brian Tracy</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Zig Ziglar</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-John Woodin</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Winston Churchill</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Annie Gottlier</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Lou Holtz</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">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 which has been opened for us.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Helen Keller</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Wilfred Peterson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Dr. Robert Anthony</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Mary Engelbreit</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>An optimist is the human personification of spring</i></b>.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Susan J. Bissonette</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Peter Marshall</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Put something silly in the world that was never there before.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Shel Silverstein</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Dr. Seuss</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Les Brown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<span data-jsid="text" style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span data-jsid="text" style="color: #b45f06;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Alphonse Karr</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Amy Tan</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Danny Kaye</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Happiness is not a station you arrive at but a manner of travelling.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Margaret Lee Runbeck </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-H. Jackson Browne</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> -Dalai Lama</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-H.W. Byles</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Mignon McLaughlin</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Jumping for joy is good exercise.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.</span></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-Dr. Seuss</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote></blockquote>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com94tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-64087140316507036532000-06-24T15:49:00.095-07:002011-09-28T11:23:04.889-07:00Cooperation and Teamwork<div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Helen Keller</span></blockquote><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.</span></blockquote><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Teamwork divides that tasks and multiplies the success.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">H.E. Luccock</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">If we would just support each other - that's ninety percent of the problem.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Edward Gardner</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Althea Gibson</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We should not only use the brains we have but all that we can borrow.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Woodrow Wilson</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We may have all come on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Martin Luther King Jr.</span></blockquote><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Charles Darwin</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Benjamin Franklin</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Margaret Carty</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Many hands make light work.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-John Heywood</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Kenyan Proverb</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">None of us is as smart as all of us.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Ken Blanchard</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Father Strickland</span></blockquote><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. </span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Margaret Meade</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skill of the others.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Norman Shidle</span></blockquote><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-George Burns</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Ryunosuke Satoro</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">TEAM - <u>T</u>ogether <u>E</u>veryone <u>A</u>chieves <u>M</u>ore</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Antione de Saint-Exupery</span></blockquote><br />
<div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Benjamin Franklin</span></blockquote><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. </span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">-Buddha</span></blockquote><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Do you have a quote to add? Please comment!</span></b></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com167tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-84646714332739331962000-06-24T15:47:00.022-07:002011-09-28T11:21:44.699-07:00Perseverance, Determination, Achievement and Success<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Ann Landers</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Aristotle</span></div></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Winston Churchill</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Failure is success if we learn from it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Malcolm Forbes</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-John Foster Dulles</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Theodore Roosevelt</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. when they beleive in themselves they have the first secret of success.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Norman Vincent Peale</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>Nothing will work unless you do.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-John Wooden </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Thomas Jefferson</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Robert Louis Stevenson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Bill Cosby</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="wp_quotepage_quote" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch your thoughts; they become words.<br />
Watch your words; they become actions.<br />
Watch your actions; they become habits.<br />
Watch your habits; they become character.<br />
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.</span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Lao-Tze </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Goethe</span></blockquote><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ralph Marstan</span></blockquote><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>You can only be truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money the goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. All the other tangible rewards will come as a result.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Maya Angelou </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Michael Jordan</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Success is not a destination. It is a journey.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Zig Ziglar</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><i>Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage</i></b>.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Charles Luckman</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is true failure.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-George Edward Woodberry</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Lloyd Jones</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Sam Ewing</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Dale Carnegie</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Frederick Faber</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Theodore Roosevelt</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome. </span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Dr. Johnson</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Henry Ford</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.</span></b></i></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Henry Ford</span></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.</span></b></i></div></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Balasar Gracian</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships were built for.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-William Shedd</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Francis Bacon</span></div></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Antoine de Saint-Exupery </span></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Fred Dehner</span></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">There are no shortcuts to any place worth going</span></b></i></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Beverly Sills</span></div><div><br />
</div></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Thomas Edison</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Booker T. Washington</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Albert Einstein</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Channing Pollock</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Sonia Johnson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-John C. Maxwell</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Erma Bombeck</span></blockquote><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></b></i><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Anthony J. D'Angelo</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Aristotle</span></span></blockquote><br />
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</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Eighty percent of success is showing up.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Woody Allen</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Arthur McAuliff</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other comes from a strong won't.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Henry Ward Beecher</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Josh Billings</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Fall seven times, stand up eight.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Japanese Proverb</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone every stumbling on something sitting down.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Charles F. Kettering</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Christopher Morley</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Douglas MacArthur</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-M. Kathleen Casey</span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Garrison Keillor</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jewish Proverb</span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. </span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Frank A. Clark</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Arthur Golden</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Theodore Rubin</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Lee Drake</span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-African Proverb</span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John F. Kennedy</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A problem is a chance for you to do your best.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Duke Ellington</span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Olin Miller</span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-J. Andrew Helt</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Confucius</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.<br />
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.<br />
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.<br />
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Dr Seuss</span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Buddy Buie</span></blockquote><br />
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</span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Elbert Hubbard</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Grandma Moses</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It always seems impossible until it is done.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Nelson Mandela </span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A different wold cannot be built by indifferent people.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Peter Marshall</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Chinese Proverb</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Zig Ziglar</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Sasha Azevedo</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Try this</u>: Have students read the last two quotes and then write their own definition of success.</b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Do you have a quote to add? Please comment!</span></b>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-54072501234637548592000-06-24T15:46:00.006-07:002011-09-28T11:22:46.965-07:00Friendship<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">The only way to have a friend is to be one.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><i><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><i><b>A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.</b></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Elbert Hubbard</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Friendship is like health. It's value is seldom known until it is lost.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Scandinavian Proverb</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Walter Winchell</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Len Wein</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-on a Pizza Place sign</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><i>Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world</i></b>.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Eleanor Roosevelt</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Henry Ford</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><i>A good friend is hard to fine, hard to lose, and impossible to forget.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Brandi Snyder</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Douglas Pagels</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Edgar Watson Howe</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Elisabeth Foley</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">A friend know the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Donna Roberts</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Our most difficult ask as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Robert Brault</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.</span></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Shirley Maclaine</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">The best times to make friends is before you need them.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Ethel Barrymore</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. but if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Alice Miller</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><em>You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.</em></strong></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Indira Gandhi</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of this life.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-E.M. Forster</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Louisa May Alcott</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">The only way to have a friend is to be one.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Abraham Lincoln</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Robert Louis Stevenson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Alice Walker</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-It's a Wonderful Life</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Dale Carnegie</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">-Japanese Proverb</span></blockquote><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Do you have a quote to add? Please comment!</span></b>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-44247829957319364382000-06-24T15:44:00.014-07:002011-09-28T11:25:30.725-07:00Math and Science<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-S. Gudder</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Dean Schlicter</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Trigonometry is a sine of the times.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">-</b>Carl Boyer (1949 calculus textbook)</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Eric Hoffer</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>-Harold Marston Morse</i></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mark Twain</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Philip J. Davis</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Richard J. Trudeau</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>-John Kemeny</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Leonard Adleman</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-E.T. Bell</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Board in Danby NY</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>USA Today has come out with a new survey--apparently three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-David Letterman</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>I'm a mathematical optimist: I deal only with positive integers.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">-</b>Tendai Chitewere</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Charles R. Darwin</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Danica McKellar</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Carl Pomerance</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Shmuel Weinberger</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Keith Devlin</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Conan Doyle</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Buckminster Fuller</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Jules Henri Poincare</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Edwin Powell Hubble</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Theodore Roszak</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Issac Asimov</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Lawrence Bragg</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Science is simply common sense at its best.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thomas Huxley</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Robert L. Park</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Claude Levi-Strauss</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Martin H. Fischer</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Bertrand Russell</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Theory guides. Experiment decides.</i></b></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">-</b>author unknown </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If it's green or wriggles, it's biology.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If it stinks, it's chemistry.<br />
If it doesn't work, it's physics.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Handy Guide to Science</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>-Abraham Flexner</i></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Isaac Asimov</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.</i></b></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alice Kahn</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Mother Teresa</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Dolly Parton</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsch</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Jesse Jackson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-author unknown</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-the Dalai Lama</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Seneca</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Life is mostly froth and bubble,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Two things stand like stone,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Kindness in another's troubles,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Courage in your own.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Adam Lindsay Gordon</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Winston Churchill</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">To often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Leo Buscaglia</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Aesop</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Jean-Jacques Rousseau</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Booker T. Washington</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-James Matthew Barrie</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Always be a little kinder than necessary.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-James Matthew Barrie</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Don't cast shadows on anyone unless you are providing shade.</span></i></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Terri Guillemets</span><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-William Penn</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Benjamin Disraeli</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Ashleigh Brilliant</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-French Proverb</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness and generosity. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Nathaniel Branden</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><b><i>Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.</i></b> </span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Scott Adams</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Albert Schweitzer</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">From what we get, we can make a living; from what we give, however, makes a life.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-Arthur Ashe</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Judy Garland </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Maya Angelou</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?</span></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Mary Oliver</span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Charles Brower</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be some one.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-C Chanel</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>This above all else: to thine own self be true</i></b>.</span></div><blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William Shakespeare </span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.</b></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Kurt Vonnegut</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do not go we are the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone who has not made a mistake has never tried anything new.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself</i></b>.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alan Alda</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Anais Nin</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Henry Ward Beecher</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So you see, imagination needs moodling - long inefficient, happy, idling, dawdling and puttering.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Brenda Ueland</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to anyone with an original idea, no matter how absurd it may sound at first. If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-William McKnight</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not think. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Sean Connery</span></blockquote><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Janis Joplin </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Life is a great, big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">.</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">-Danny Kaye</span> </span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Vincent van Gogh</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-J.K. Rowling </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Lou Holtz</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seem sto be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-George Kneller</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by the old ones.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Cage</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Joseph Chilton Pierce</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brillian, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Marianne Williamson </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Be the change you want to see in the world.</span></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Mahatma Gandhi </span></span></blockquote><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-e.e. cummings</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Albert Einstein</span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-George Bernard Shaw</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Edward de Bono</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. </span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Theodore Levitt</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. </span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Maynard Keynes</span></blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is trying things to see if they work.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ray Bradbury</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live with intention</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Walk on the edge</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Listen hard</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Practice wellness</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Play with abandon, Laugh</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Choose with no regret</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Continue to learn</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Appreciate your friends</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Do what you love</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live as if this is all there is.</span></span><br />
<div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> -Mary Ann Radmacher</span></blockquote><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Do you have a quote to add? Please comment!</span></b> </div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04175483870853281674noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991310070225153985.post-1206769558357146792000-06-24T15:30:00.015-07:002011-09-28T11:20:55.323-07:00Learning, Education, and School<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Lou Holtz </span></blockquote><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Arisippus</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D. </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Franklin D. Roosevelt </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and a knowledge.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Albert Einstein </span></blockquote><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.</span></i></b></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Roger Lewin</span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"You can easily count the seeds in an apple, but you may never be able to count the apples in a single seed."</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-E.M. Forster </span></blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I never let my schooling interfere with my education.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Mark Twain </span></blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Nelson Mandela </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The whole purpose of education is to turn me errors into windows.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Sidney J. Harris</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-William Butler Yeats </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The important thing is not to stop questioning.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Albert Einstein </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. </span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Carl Rogers</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">What we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Angelina Schwindt </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with and open one.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Malcolm S. Forbes </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">If the child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Igancio Estrada </span></blockquote><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me an all understand.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Chinese proverb</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Learning is not a spectator sport.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-D Blocher</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Barak Obama </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Education is not received. It is achieved.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">And educate man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person, and entertain himself.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Sydney Herbert Wood </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without using your temper or your self confidence.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Robert Frost </span></blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">There is a grave defect in the school where the playground suggests happy and classroom disagreeable thoughts.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-John Spalding </span></blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">To be able to be caught up in the world of thought-that is being educated.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Edith Hamilton </span></blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.</span></b></i><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-George Leonard </span></blockquote><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.</span></i></b><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">-Jean Piaget</span></blockquote><br />
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