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It is not the date you were born, or the date you died, that really matters. It's "the dash" between those years and what you do with it, to make a difference with your life. The Dash, by Linda Ellis

“We hold the view that people come first, not the government”

John F. Kennedy

 

“What is necessary to change, it is necessary not to change”

Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland

 

“Great things spring from causalities”

Disraeli

 

“Character is that what you are in the dark”

Attributed to: Dwight L Moody

 

“Common sense is not so common”

Voltaire

 

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated”

Ernest Hemingway

 

“The fewer desires, the more peace”

Thomas Wilson

 

“Doubt whom you will, but never doubt your self”

Christian Nestell Bovee

 

“Education is the cheap defense of nations”

Attributed to: Edmund Burke

 

“The educated differ from uneducated as much as the living from dead”

Attributed to: Aristotle

 

“Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction”

Aesop

 

The world must be coming to end. Children no longer obey their parents and every man wants to write a book.

Attributed to Assyrian stone tablet of about 2800 B.C.

 

I have climbed to the top of greasy pole!

Benjamin Disraeli

 

Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.

Louis Brandies

 

 To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Euripides

 

To me, faith means not worrying.

John Dewey

 

A majority can do anything.

Joseph G. Cannon

 

One and God make a majority.

Fredrick Douglass

 

One with the law is a majority.

Calvin Coolidge

 

If put in the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth than a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Hubbard

 

We all blind until we see

               That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Edwin Markham

 

Fear is always springs from ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Samuel Johnson

 

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

 

Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

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