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The Allegory of the Cave
-----Plato

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
-----Clarence Darrow

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
-----Charles Dickens

"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
----- Barbara De Angelis

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
-----Malachy McCourt

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
----- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

"Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grand parents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."
----- C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963

"I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch where through
Gleams that untravell'd world,
Whose margin fades forever and forever when I move."
----- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
----- Charles Dickens

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
----- Abigail Adams, 1744-1818

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
----- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

"Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind."
----- William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879

"Those who do not look upon themselves as links connecting the past with the future do not perform their duty to the world."
----- Daniel Webster, 1782-1852

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
----- Francis Bacon, 1561-1626

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
-----Ursula Kroeber LeGuin, 1929-

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
----- Anais Nin, 1903-1977

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."
-----Rosalyn S. Yalow

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
----- Victor Borge

"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."
-----Mary Caroline Richards, 1928-1994

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
----- Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), 1910-1997

"Laughter is wine for the soul--laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm . . . Once we can laugh, we can live."
-----Sean O'Casey, 1884-1964

"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
-----Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The years teach much which the days never knew."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the 'right stuff' to turn our dreams into reality."
-----James Womack

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
-----Ella Fitzgerald

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
-----Neil Peart

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
----- Mother Teresa, 1910-1997

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
----- Helen Keller, 1880-1968

"He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six."
--Chinese proverb

"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
-----Ruth Smeltzer

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge."
--Plato

"No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
----- Maya Angelou

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible--even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
-----Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973

"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
----- Socrates, 469-399 B.C.

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, "How could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags."
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
"What if Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
-----Dr. Seuss, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1966)

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