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| Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Author Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Author Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Author Alan Kay | ||||
| Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Author Albert Camus | ||||
| The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. Author Albert Einstein | ||||
| Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Author Albert Einstein | ||||
| Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Author Albert Einstein | ||||
| Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Author Albert Schweitzer | ||||
| There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. Author Alfred Hitchcock | ||||
| When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' Author Alfred Hitchcock | ||||
| Education is the movement from darkness to light. Author Allan Bloom | ||||
| The joy that isn't shared dies young. Author Anne Sexton | ||||
| Necessity is the mother of invention. Author Anon. | ||||
| A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Author Antoine De Saint-Exupery | ||||
| The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Author Aristotle | ||||
| The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. Author Aristotle Onassis | ||||
| If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Author Arthur C. Clarke | ||||
| He profits most who serves best. Author Arthur F. Sheldon | ||||
| We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Author Ben Sweetland | ||||
| To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. Author Benjamin Jowett | ||||
| If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Author Carl Sagan | ||||
| Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. Author Charles Baudelaire | ||||
| No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Author Charles Dudley Warner | ||||
| All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Author Charlie Chaplin | ||||
| Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. Author Charlie Parker | ||||
| Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Author Chinese Proverb | ||||
| Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Author Christopher Columbus | ||||
| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Author Clive Staples Lewis | ||||
| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Author Cyril Connolly | ||||
| Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Author Dag Hammarskjold | ||||
| It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. Author David Bailey | ||||
| A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. Author David Brink | ||||
| The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. Author David Russell | ||||
| The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Author Diogenes | ||||
| We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Author E. M. Forster | ||||
| The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. Author Ed Koch | ||||
| Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. Author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | ||||
| The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Author Elaine Agather | ||||
| You must do the things you think you cannot do. Author Eleanor Roosevelt | ||||
| The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. Author Elizabeth Drew | ||||
| The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Author Emile Zola | ||||
| If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Author Emily Dickinson | ||||
| Judges don't age; time decorates them. Author Enid Bagnold | ||||
| When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Author Enrique Jardiel Poncela | ||||
| Only the educated are free. Author Epictetus | ||||
| For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. Author Ethel Barrymore | ||||
| Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish. Author Ferdinand I | ||||
| Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. Author Ford Maddox | ||||
| One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child. Author Forest Witcraft | ||||
| Knowledge is power. Author Francis Bacon | ||||
| Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Author Francis Bacon | ||||
| Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Author Frank Herbert | ||||
| Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Author Frank Lloyd Wright | ||||
| A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. Author Frank Lloyd Wright | ||||
| Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Author Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||||
| There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Author Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||||
| All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. Author Franklin P. Jones | ||||
| Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Author Franz Werfel | ||||
| I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Author G. C. Lichtenberg | ||||
| Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Author G. K. Chesterton | ||||
| Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Author G. K. Chesterton | ||||
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Author G. K. Chesterton | ||||
| 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Author George Gordon Byron | ||||
| Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. Author George Washington | ||||
| Recognition is the greatest motivator. Author Gerard C. Eakedale | ||||
| JUDGE, n: A law student who marks his own papers. Author H.L. Mencken | ||||
| Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity. Author Harold J. Seymore | ||||
| Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Author Harry Emerson Fosdick | ||||
| All progress occurs because people dare to be different. Author Harry Millner | ||||
| There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view. Author Harry Millner | ||||
| The expert at anything was once a beginner. Author Hayes | ||||
| To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. Author Henri Cartier-Bresson | ||||
| Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Author Henry David Thoreau | ||||
| When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. Author Henry J. Kaiser | ||||
| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Author Henry Ward Beecher | ||||
| Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Author Henry Ward Beecher | ||||
| In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. Author Henry Watton | ||||
| We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Author Herman Melville | ||||
| When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'. Author Hillaire Belloc | ||||
| He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. Author Horace | ||||
| The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Author Horace Walpole | ||||
| Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Author J. Russel Lynes | ||||
| I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. Author Jack Benny | ||||
| The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. Author Jacob Getlar Smith | ||||
| In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. Author John Barrymore | ||||
| Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. Author John Fitzgerald Kennedy | ||||
| Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource. Author John Fitzgerald Kennedy | ||||
| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. Author John Fitzgerald Kennedy | ||||
| There is still no cure for the common birthday. Author John Glenn | ||||
| Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Author John Locke | ||||
| Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. Author John MacNaughton | ||||
| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Author Joseph Addison | ||||
| Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. Author Joseph Addison | ||||
| You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Author Kahlil Gibran | ||||
| The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' Author Lao-Tzu | ||||
| They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them. Author Laurence Binyen For the Fallen | ||||
| A brother is a friend given by Nature. Author Legouve | ||||
| Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others. Author Leib Lazarow | ||||
| Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Author Leo C. Rosten | ||||
| Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Author Leonardo DaVinci | ||||
| What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Author Logan Pearsall Smith | ||||
| The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. Author Madame de Maintenon | ||||
| When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art. Author Marc Chagall | ||||
| Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Author Marcus Tullius Cicero | ||||
| Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? Author Marcus Tullius Cicero | ||||
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Author Mark Twain | ||||
| We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. Author Martha Grimes | ||||
| Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. Author Mary O'Hare Dumas | ||||
| Music is the soul of language. Author Max Heindel | ||||
| The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. Author Max Percy | ||||
| Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. Author Michael Brian Schiffer | ||||
| Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Author Michael Levine | ||||
| It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. Author Millard Fuller | ||||
| No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Author Minor White | ||||
| Through struggle to the stars. Author Motto of the Mulvany family | ||||
| I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country. Author Nathan Hale | ||||
| I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Author Nathan Hale | ||||
| Why don’t you write books people can read? Author Nora Joyce, to her husband James | ||||
| The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. Author Novalis | ||||
| One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Author Oliver Wendell Holmes | ||||
| Citius, Altius, Fortius Author Olympic Motto | ||||
| It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Author Ornette Coleman | ||||
| The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. Author Oscar Wilde | ||||
| Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Author Oscar Wilde | ||||
| Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. Author Ovid | ||||
| Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Author Pablo Casals | ||||
| Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. Author Pablo Picasso | ||||
| The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Author Pablo Picasso | ||||
| Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Author Pablo Picasso | ||||
| Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Author Pascal | ||||
| The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Author Peter De Vries | ||||
| ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space. Author Philip Johnson | ||||
| The true science and study of man is man. Author Pierre Charron | ||||
| The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Author Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ||||
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us. Author Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||||
| Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. Author Rene Descartes | ||||
| It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Author Rene Descartes | ||||
| The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. Author Richard Harding Davis | ||||
| When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. Author Richard Milhous Nixon | ||||
| Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Author Robert Louis Stephenson | ||||
| Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. Author Rodan of Alexandria | ||||
| Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society. Author Ruth Nanda Anshen | ||||
| Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Author Samuel Johnson | ||||
| Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Author Sir Arthur Helps | ||||
| But words came halting forth, wanting Invention’s stay; Invention, Nature’s child, fled step-dame Study’s blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, ‘Fool,’ said my Muse to me; ‘look in thy heart and write.’ Author Sir Philip Sidney | ||||
| Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Author Sir Theodore Martin | ||||
| All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Author Sir Walter Scott | ||||
| Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Author Sir Winston Churchill | ||||
| Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. Author Sophocles | ||||
| A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Author Stanley Kubrick | ||||
| Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. Author Tacitus | ||||
| Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. Author Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) | ||||
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. Author Thomas Alva Edison | ||||
| I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work. Author Thomas Alva Edison | ||||
| Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Author Thomas Carlyle | ||||
| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Author Thomas Jefferson | ||||
| The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. Author Vi Putnam | ||||
| All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. Author Voltaire | ||||
| The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life. Author W. Edward Brown | ||||
| When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. Author W. H. Auden | ||||
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Author Walt Disney | ||||
| Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Author Walter Savage Landor | ||||
| Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Author William Butler Yeats | ||||
| The home is the chief school of human virtues. Author William Ellery Channing | ||||
| There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. Author William Makepeace Thackeray | ||||
| To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight. Author William Shakespeare | ||||
| O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. Author William Shakespeare | ||||
| Half this game is 90% mental. Author Yogi Berra | ||||
| A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. Author Zadok Rabinwitz | ||||
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