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Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

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The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is.


— Ch. 28 (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974))

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If you can dream it, you can do it.

Tom Fitzgerald

— Commonly attributed to Walt Disney, but actually coined by a Disney employee for the Epcot ride Horizons in the 1980s.

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Sometimes you need to talk to a two year old just so you can understand life again.

unknown

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Thousands of candles can be lighted by a single candle, and the life the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

— A paraphrase of Section 10 of the Sutra of 42 Sections, a Chinese text.

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There can be no great accomplishment without risk.

neil armstrong

— In response to being told that John Bardeen had strongly opposed the space program and had advised Kennedy not to go to the moon.

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No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.

sarada devi

— In the Company of the Holy Mother. pp. 66-67. 

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

brian tracy

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

theodore roosevelt

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You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.

John P. Grier

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Why should we not boycott the Soviet Union and its supporters inside the country? If we do so, we can force them to review their stand. Either they give us what we want and what is necessary or they will lose our friendship.

hafez al-assad

— Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet policy since the invasion of Afghanistan by Robert Owen Freedman (1991, p. 40)

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Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.

nelson mandela

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What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.

Brooke westcott

— Attributed to Brooke Westcott in Mixer and Server. Hotel and Restaurant Employee's International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America.. 1929. 

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There is not a moral evil which has not its infallible antidote, nor any moral virtue which has not its spring and sustenance in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. To apprehend Him with every faculty of the mind, and with every affection of the heart, and to grow daily in that apprehension, is to emerge from every thing that enthralls, to surmount all that can contaminate.


— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 96.

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

david brinkley

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

dr. seuss

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A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.

mellin de saint-gelais

— Oeuvres poétiques

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In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

George carlin

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In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.

alex haley

— As quoted in Traits of a Healthy Family (1985, p. 199) by Dolores Curran

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Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

alex haley

— Statement in Reader's Digest (1987), as quoted in Incredibly American : Releasing the Heart of Quality (1992) by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala, p. 13

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

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Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, Avisitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

william wordsworth

— The Prelude, book 1, lines 1-9 (1799, published 1850).

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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

jawaharlal nehru

— As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74

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You can hit him and hit him and hit him and he just keeps on coming. I think that I learned a long time ago that one attribute that great players have is stamina, and he obviously has great stamina.

javon ringer

— Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis, quoted at Ringer 23.com (undated)

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Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

winston churchill

— Speech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940).

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

nelson mandela

— Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

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The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

martin short

— Parade Magazine (January 23rd, 2000).

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