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"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
- Napoleon Hill
"In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy."
- Stephen Hawking
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
- Will Rogers
"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."
- Stephen Hawking
"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
- Khalil Gibran
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
- Samuel Johnson
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
- Albert Einstein
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
- Martin Luther
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
- Will Durant
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
- Lord Byron
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it."
- Ferris Bueller
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
- G.K. Chesterton
"Not to know is bad, but to wish to know is worse."
- West African Proverb
"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."
- Barack Obama
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
- Tom Stoppard
"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."
- Dalai Lama
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
- Wayne Dyer
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
- Joe Garagiola
"Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see."
- John W Gardner
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
- Oscar Wilde
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."
- Charlie Chaplin
"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
- Dale Carnegie
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
- Lord Byron
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
- Albert Einstein
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
- Ronald Reagan
"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."
- Albert Einstein
"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
- Elbert Hubbard
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
- Aldous Huxley
"Most people see what is, and never see what can be."
- Albert Einstein
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."
- Confucius
"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
- Samuel Johnson
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
- Andy Warhol
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody."
- Truman Capote
"A quiet fool is half a sage."
- Yiddish Proberb
"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
- Barack Obama
"Small deeds done are greater than great deeds planned."
- Anonymous
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
- Albert Camus
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
- John Ruskin
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
- Brian Tracy
"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
- Albert Camus
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