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- Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
- Jimmy Johnson
- History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
- Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
- Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
- If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
- Gail Sheehy
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes
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