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- It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Method of Nature (1841)
- There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Man has responsibility, not power.
- Tuscarora proverb
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
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