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- Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance."
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
- People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
- Edward Hodnett
- Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
- J. S. Habgood
- Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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