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- If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brendan Francis
- Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
- Thomas J. Watson
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
- Henry S. Haskins
- Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
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