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“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
Albert Einstein

“Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.”
Barack Obama

“The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.”
Frank Herbert

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
Albert Einstein

“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law which demands that everyone who hinders the satisfaction of my desires should be throttled. That is the conclusion of reason. Reason could not discover love for the other, because it’s unreasonable.”
Leo Tolstoy

“He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can't know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They've seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.”
Barack Obama

“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.”
Barack Obama

“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...”
Nelson Mandela

“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”
Zig Ziglar

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
George Washington

“If you don’t like who you are and where you are, don’t worry about it because you’re not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.
Zig Ziglar

“People who do not believe in themselves have trouble believing in others.”
John C. Maxwell

“LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests”
John C. Maxwell

“I turned my attention to every­ thing that was done by people who claimed to be Christians, I was horrified.”
Leo Tolstoy

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
Leo Tolstoy

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