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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.: Stewart B. Johnson
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.: William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.: The Dhammapada (c. BC 300)
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, 1961
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
We... anticipate what's to come, then ignore what's actually here.: Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, Timeshifting (1996)
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.: Bartholomew

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