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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

~ Isaac Newton

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

 - Douglas MacArthur

The stride of passengers off an airplane is always jauntier than the stride on

~ Tom Clancy

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty is not caused. It is.

~ Emily Dickinson

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

~ Winston Churchill

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
     - Corrie Ten Boom

Procrastination is my sin.
It brings me naught but sorrow.
I know that I should stop it.
In fact, I will - tomorrow!
    ~ Gloria Pitzer

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

~ A. A. Milne

It's so much more friendly with two.

     - A. A. Milne 

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

~ Alan Alexander Milne - creator of Winnie the Pooh

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

 ~ Horace Walpole 

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

~Charles Mingus

Enthusiasm is grounded in play.  Your creative work is actually your inner playmate.

~ Julia Cameron

And the sea shall grant all men new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.
   ~ Christopher Columbus, 1451 - 1506

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.

~ Albert Einstein

It was as if a veil had been torn suddenly away;  I had
understood, I had grasped what painting could be.

~ Claude Monet

Enthusiasm is grounded in play.  Your creative work is actually your inner playmate.

~ Julia Cameron

Character is what you are in the dark.

~ Dwight L. Moody

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. 

~ Alexandre Dumas

Life is short, stay awake!

 ~T-shirt of the Barista 

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is  

~ Erasmus

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?

~ Katherine Graham

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style. 

~ Lucille Kallen

He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.

~ Anton Chekhov

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