"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"There is no armor against fate."

Shirley, James on fate   

"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind."

Todd, Mike on poverty and the poor   

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

Leslie, H. T. on life
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

Richter, Jean Paul on happiness
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"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

Basil, St. on courtesy
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"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

Snow, Dan on teacher
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"What we need is to use what we have."

Walsh, Basil S. on action
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"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

Halm, Fredrich on soul
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"An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on unemployment
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Flaubert, Gustave on history and historians
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"The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."

Rowland, Helen on opportunity
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

Mitchell, Silas Weir on burdens
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"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

Birrell, Augustine on libraries
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"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."

Shaffer, Robert H. on teacher
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"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."

Lucas, E. V. on tardiness
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"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Yeats, William Butler on motivation
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"Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain."

Cook, Robert A. on complaints and complaining
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"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Dickens, Charles on cries and crying
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Ashe, Arthur on giving
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"Poverty is the step-mother of genius."

Billings, Josh on poverty and the poor
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"If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys."

Bumper Sticker on memory
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"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

Nightingale, Earl on planning
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"When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding."

Douglas, Mack R. on success
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Carlyle, Thomas on decisions
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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other."

Unknown, Source on angels
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

James, William on fatigue
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"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

Paine, Thomas on adversity
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