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- It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), South Africa, 1966
- Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer
- My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
- Larry Hagman
- He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835)
- Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
- Unknown
- Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
- Unknown
- When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob Riis
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams
- One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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