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- Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.
- Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Mitch Albom
- If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
- John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
- Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.
- Emil Zatopek
- Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.
- Percy Cerutty
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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