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"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler~

"Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense." ~Gertrude Stein

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for
they shall never cease to be amused." ~Unknown~

"I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." ~Emily Bronté~

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living
in the 21st century." ~S.J. Perelman~

"'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do
today.' Under the influence of this pestilent
morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop
backwards into today's, and doing painfully and
nervously today what I could do quickly and easily
tomorrow." ~J. A. Spender~

"Success is not found in what you have achieved, but rather in who you have become." ~Unknown~

"Hold on to your power.
Don't let others squash it.
Hold on to your courage.
Don't let others preach it out of you.
Hold on to your independence.
Don't let others scare it out of you.
Author your life without guilt or shame.
Do not live to please others.
Refuse to surrender except to your truest self
and your wisest voice."
~Patricia Lynn Reilly~

"Everything you can imagine is real." ~Pablo
Picasso~

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however
frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
~May Sarton, Writer~

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it." ~Albert
Einstein~

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's
ignorance." Confucius

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome,
dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May
your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
~Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)~

"I would rather live in a world where my life is
surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small
that my mind could comprehend it." ~Henry Emerson Fosdick~

"There is one thing we can do, and the happiest
people are those who do it to the limit of their
ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can...give all our attention to the
opportunity before us." ~Mark Van Doren~

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
~Eudora Welty, Writer~

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace
with himself. What one can be, one must be."
~Abraham Maslow~

"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation
is who you are." ~Ancient Chinese Proverb~

"You are your greatest investment. The more you
store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich
your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate." ~George Matthew Adams~

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the
attribute of the strong." ~ Gandhi ~

"It is never too late to become who you might have
been." ~Mary Ann Evans~ (pen name George Eliot)

"Our chief want in life is someone who will make us
do what we can." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." ~Agnes Repplier, Writer~

"The greatest good you can do for another is not
just share your riches, but reveal to him, his own."
~Benjamin Desraeli~

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~Carl Gustav Jung~

"Without Adversity, without change, life is boring. The paradox of comfort is that we stop trying." ~John Amatt~

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~Mark Twain~

"Don't frown - you never know who is falling in love with your smile." ~Unknown~

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~Aristotle~

"Figure out what is good for you and learn to like it." ~Unknown~

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." ~Gandhi~

"All truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." ~Arthur Schopenhauer~

"Begin to live as you wish to live." ~Portuguese saying~

"Disaster preparedness: if you’re prepared, it’s not a disaster." ~Tricia Santos~

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." ~Eleanor Roosevelt~

"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them." ~Anonymous~

"Fearful, frantic thinking takes an enormous amount of energy and drains the creativity and motivation from our lives." ~Unknown~

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ~Carl Jung~

"Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends." ~Benjamin Disraeli~

"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the fire department generally uses water." ~Unknown~

"Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are." ~Bill Gates~

"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." ~Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (1899-1974)~

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." ~Chief Seattle~

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them." ~George Bernard Shaw~

"Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst." ~Walter Weckler~

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." ~William O. Douglas, judge (1898-1980)~

"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." ~Mark Twain~

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground." ~Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor and orator (1817-1895)~

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." ~Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (1469-1527)~

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt~

"The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it."
~Woodrow Wilson~

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without." ~President Dwight Eisenhower~

"FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick any TWO" ~Andrew Baker~