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- Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
- George Matthew Adams
- It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.
- John Wooden (1910 - )
- Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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