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be content with what we possess is the greatest and most
secure of riches. Cicero I will get further along in my path today, if I don't stop to trip others Author unknown Obstacles are timing mechanisms designed to put you in the right place at the right time. Author unknown If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry. Michael Nolan You never grow old until you've lost all your marvels! Merry Browne There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. J. Robert Oppenheimer Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Tolstoy Letting off steam always produces more heat than light. Neal A. Maxwell A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English proverb I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. Winston Churchill In the space age the most important space is between the ears. Anne Armstrong My life is like a stroll on the beach, as near the ocean's edge as I can go. Henry David Thoreau Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. John Tyndall I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindess causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt. Ann Wells Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Henry Ford t has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Henry Poincare There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton An man should not fear death; he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. Confucius I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Anne Sullivan I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. Diana Black The only true widsom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Tecumseh I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. Bill Watterson Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child. Godfried Bomans Let things happen naturally and do not try to force a certain outcome. That which is not natural will not be right. Lao Zi The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner Sitting silently doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Basho Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Khalil Gibran Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Be yourself who else is better qualified? Frank J. Giblin II This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more the give, the more they posess. Rainer Maria Rilke 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 The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. Witter Bynner Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov
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