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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Is there life before death?: Graffito, in Belfast
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.: Wally Lamb
The ancestor of every action is a thought.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.: Isak Dineson, 'Babette's Feast'
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.: Burk Hudson
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.: Dennis Miller
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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Partying is such sweet sorrow.: Robert Byrne
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.: Cullen Hightower