Thought Of The Day

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"If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day." -- Gandhi

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." -- Socrates

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." -- Will Durant

"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know." -- Anthony Robbins

“Strange how much you’ve got to know before you know how little you know.”

"Teaching allows you to share your wealth while at the same time increasing your own wealth." -- Catherine Pulsifer

"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power." -- Jeremy Taylor

"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance." -- Confucius

"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." -- Caryl Haskins

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"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle." -- Robert Anthony

"Asking questions is one of the fundamental keys of learning. It is always better to ask a question than pretend you understand." -- Catherine Pulsifer

"Men learn while they teach." -- Seneca

"A man is but what he knows." -- Francis Bacon

"Continuous learning prepares you to take advantage of opportunities." -- Catherine Pulsifer

"The secret to self-confidence is to feed your mind with positive thoughts, and surround yourself with people who give you positive support!" -- Catherine Pulsifer, from What We Believe

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." -- Martin H. Fischer

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler

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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake." -- French Proverb

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." -- Charles F. Kettering

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." -- Francis Bacon

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired." -- Erik H. Erikson

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." -- Samuel Ullman

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. -- Hong Kong Proverb

"There are no hopeless situations, there are only men who have grown helpless about them." -- Clare Boothe Luce

"Choices. We make hundreds of choices in our lives. Other people make hundreds of choices. We might wish and hope that we can change other peoples' choices so they can avoid potential problems be that drug abuse, alcohol, relationships, parenting and on and on." -- Byron Pulsifer, from Choices

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning." -- Barbara Kingsolver

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer

As we embrace the future, let us also reflect upon our part. For it will always be the most important part of who we are.

Let us be proud of who we are, and confident of our capabilities.

As people, we have grown together and enriched one another’s lives. Now, as we move into the future, let us always hold dear to our most enduring legacy.

With confidence, courage, and self-belief, we can overcome any adversity to realize our true potential.

The more we learn to appreciate what our country has to offer us, the more we realize that Our Home is Our Paradise.

To see things in the seed, that is genius. -- Lao-Tzu

"While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can turn dreams into reality." -- Nan S. Russell, from Wishing and Hoping

"To be without hope is like being without goals, what are you working towards?" -- Catherine Pulsifer

"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. -- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race. -- Ernest L. Woodward

It is vital that people "count their blessings" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. -- Abraham Maslow

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." -- E. E. Cummings, writer

Don't cross the stream to look for water. -- Swedish Proverb

Patience is passion tamed. -- Lyman Abbott

We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. -- Sydney Smith

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences. -- John Henry Patterson

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. -- Golda Meir

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"Continuous learning prepares you to take advantage of opportunities." -- Catherine Pulsifer

"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power." -- Jeremy Taylor

"Teaching allows you to share your wealth while at the same time increasing your own wealth." -- Catherine Pulsifer

"Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another." -- Joseph Addison

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm S. Forbes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.
-- John Richelsen

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye. -- Helen Keller

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. -- Elie Wiesel

Life’s challenges are not designed to break us but to bend us towards God.

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Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art. -- Frank Tyger

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
-- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." -- Mary Kay Ash

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
-- Gail Godwin

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -- J.M. Barrie

He who has done is best for his own time has lived for all times. -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

"Like the muscle in our bodies, the brain gets strong I the places where we train it." -- Eileen McDargh, from Brainpower for the Overwhelmed

"Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves." -- Josh Billings

“Knowledge is of two kinds.
We know a subject ourselves, or
we know where we can find information on it.” -- Samuel Johnson

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups." -- Peter Davies

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"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." -- George Allen

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own." -- Henry Ford

"Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want." -- Anthony Robbins

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." -- Napoleon Hill

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." -- Robert Collier

"Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." -- Eric Butterworth

"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do." -- Albert Gray

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -- John Wooden

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments." -- Henry Ward Beecher

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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -- Martin Luther King, Jr

"I got nothing that I asked for--but everything I had hoped for,
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.” -- Author Unknown, from I Asked

“Hope is the dream of a waking man." -- Diogenes

"Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us peace and strength, and keeps us going when all seems lost. Accepting what you cannot change doesn't mean you have given up on hope. It just means you have to focus your hope on more humanly tangible and attainable goals." -- Julie Donner Andersen, from What My Widowed Husband Has Taught Me

"Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper." -- American Proverb

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." -- Henry Ford

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance." -- Author Unknown, from Dear Bertha

"Believe in the incredible power of the human mind. Of doing something that makes a difference. Of working hard. Of laughing and hoping." -- Author Unknown, from Dream Big

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." -- Henry David Thoreau

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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." -- Charles F. Kettering

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." -- Francis Bacon

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired." -- Erik H. Erikson

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." -- Samuel Ullman

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. -- Hong Kong Proverb

"There are no hopeless situations, there are only men who have grown helpless about them." -- Clare Boothe Luce

"Choices. We make hundreds of choices in our lives. Other people make hundreds of choices. We might wish and hope that we can change other peoples' choices so they can avoid potential problems be that drug abuse, alcohol, relationships, parenting and on and on." -- Byron Pulsifer, from Choices

"Hope is a renewable option:
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning." -- Barbara Kingsolver

"What is hope?
Hope is wishing for a thing to come true;
faith is believing that it will come true." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"The Grand essentials of happiness are:
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -- Allan K. Chalmers

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Love is like war, Easy to begin but hard to end.

Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
-- from the movie Moulin Rouge

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
-- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is Love. -- Socrates

I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart. -- Alice Walker

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
-- Josiah G. Holland

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Love is a wonderful thing. You never have to take it away from one person to give it to another. There's always more than enough to go around. -- Pamela de Roy

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Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support... -- William Shakespeare

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, and ending at never.

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will. -- William S. Burroughs

True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen... They release the ink that flows from within their heart.

You love simply because you cannot help it. -- Kim Anderson

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. -- Hubert Humprey

Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned... -- William Butler Yeats

True love doesn't have a happy ending; True love doesn't have an ending.

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You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.

Love is not a matter of counting the years... But making the years count. -- Michelle St. Amand

Only love let's us see normal things in an extraordinary way.

A heart that loves is always young. -- Greek Proverb

To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with. -- Mark Twain

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

If I know what love is, it is because of you. -- Herman Hesse

You may only be one person to the world but you may also be the world to one person.

Age does not protect us from love. But love to some extent protects us from age.

You can give without loving, But you cannot love without giving. -- Amy Carmichael

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The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.... -- Michelle Hammersley

We can only learn to love by loving. -- Iris Murdoch

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. -- Henry James

What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others. -- Robin St. John

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return. -- Maria Edgeworth

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. -- Ralph Connor

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Fuller

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. -- Honore de Balzac

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. -- W. Somerset Maugham

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What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
-- Leo Buscaglia

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life. -- Charles Stanley ( A Man's Touch)

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. -- Todd Ruthman

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. -- Leo Buscaglia (Born For Love)

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. -- Conrad Hilton

There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
-- Brian Tracy

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

"Let me listen to me and not to them." -- Gertrude Stein, American Arthur

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. -- Arthur Schopenhauerv

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. -- R.C. Samsel

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. -- Bill Wilson

It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -- William Somerset Maugham

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge. -- John J. Watson

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. -- Anthony (Tony) Robbins

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough. -- Ronald Reagan

The more you prepare, the luckier you appear. -- Terry Josephson

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We will either find a way or make one. -- Hannibal

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. -- Vince Lombardi

If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. -- Robert Hughes

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. -- Channing Pollock

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. -- Jimmy Carter

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. -- Charles De Gaulle

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
-- John Christian Bovee

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
-- Roger Bannister

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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. -- Vince Lombardi

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
-- Tommy Lasorda

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
-- Samuel Johnson

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think... -- Lord Byron

Love is smiling on the inside and out. -- Jennifer Williams

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One discipline always leads to another discipline. -- Jim Rohn

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. -- Brian Tracy

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. -- Josiah Quincy

The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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Half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck. -- Carl Zuckmeyer

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. -- Jim Rohn

Love is a moment that lasts forever... -- Julie Wittey

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
-- Rob Gilbert

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. -- William Feather

It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.

Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters. -- William Curry

The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do. -- Aristotle

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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. -- Napoleon Hill

Love that is true never grows old. -- Elben Bano

A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter. -- Proverb

Discipline is remembering what you want. -- David Campbell

He who lives without discipline dies without honor. -- Icelandic Proverb

Love reminds you that nothing else matters. -- Amy Bushell

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. -- Bum Phillips

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old. -- Bill Clinton

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. -- Anna M. Uhlich

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau

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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. -- Delmore Schwartz

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. -- Erma Bombeck

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -- John Barrymore

Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.

It may be that those who do most, dream most. -- Stephen Butler Leacock

When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. -- Jiminy Cricket

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. -- Martin Luther

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely. -- Erma Bombeck

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Great hopes make great men. -- Thomas Fuller

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. -- Steven Spielberg

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

Dreaming men are haunted men. -- Stephen Vincent Binet

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be. -- George Lucas

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. -- Woodrow Wilson

It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship. -- Proverb

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. -- Sir Francis Bacon

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. -- Hillaire Belloc

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. -- Apocrypha

Friendship is Love without his wings! -- Lord Byron

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. -- Len Wein

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. -- Henry Ward Beecher

There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.
-- Kathy Kay Benudiz

Friendship is essentially a partnership. -- Aristotle

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. -- Euripides (408 B.C.)

A good friend is my nearest relation. -- Thomas Fuller (1732)

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A friend is a present you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. -- Epicurus

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. -- Baltasar Gracian (1647)

Friendship needs no words... -- Dag Hammarskjold

Friends are the sunshine of life. -- John Hay (1871)

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -- Readers Digest

The best mirror is an old friend. -- George Herbert

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. -- Sallust (1st century B.C.)

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. -- Kahil Gibran

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. -- Charles Peguy

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. -- George Eliot

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. -- Frank Crane

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. -- William Penn

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. -- Mark Twain

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. -- Edward Young

An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is.

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