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"We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are gonna tell the truth; not most days but every day; leaders who don't forget what they don't want to remember."
~ Ann Richards (1988) DNC Keynote Address |
"integrity will cost you more than vanity. spoil yourself."
~justin r. saunders |
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and
thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the person. John MacDuff |
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman |
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
-- A.E. Housman |
The last lecture...
The key question to keep asking is, "Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have." Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) |
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde |
somebody
" She said she was going to be somebody someday. Perhaps she should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin |
I couldn't even begin to quote this fine woman. So I'll let her speak for herself.
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While I have the maturity, the inclination and the experience, I haven't the time. —The Cowboys
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We all go a little mad sometimes.—Norman Bates, Psycho
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I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. ~John Lancaster Spalding
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"The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live of Democrats. -Will Rogers :huhlaugh:
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." ---Mary Pickford |
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel." ---Morrie Schwartz |
"It's not where you're from; it's where you're going. It's not what you drive; it's what drives you. It's not what's on you; it's what's in you. It's not what you think; it's what you know." - Author Unknown |
Poeta nascitur, non fit.
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Once again...to attempt to quote this woman wouldn't do her justice...so I'll let her say it herself.
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“The greatest distance is not from here to the moon, it is from one human heart to another. That’s the space we really need to cross.” - Sita |
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