Quote of the day

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The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
- -- Edward Grey (1862-1933), British statesman

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~Samuel Johnson

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The fear is worse than the pain.
~Shannon Bahr

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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
- -- Vince Lombardi

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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- -- Henry Fielding

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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man.
- -- W. Russell Bowie

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
- -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
- -- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

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Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
- -- William James

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So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
- -- Thomas Wolfe

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Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
~Charles Schultz

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You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
~James G. Bilkey

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
- -- Charles Caleb Colton

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Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

~Annette Funicello

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Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

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Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.

~Unknown

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THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN.

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Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr