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<p>“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”</p>

<p>Soren Kierkegaard</p>

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<p>No other success can compensate for failure in the home.</p>

<p>David O. McKay</p>

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<p>Here’s one that strikes close to home for me:</p>

<p>“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for. Perfection is God’s business.” --Michael J. Fox</p>

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<p>Eternity is two people and a ham. Often attributed to Dorothy Parker, sometimes attributed to Irma Rombauer (Joy of Cooking). Whoever first said it, it’s my favorite quote because unlike many aphorisms, this is undeniably true.</p>

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<p>“Not all who wander are lost.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien</p>

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<p>“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”
Ethel Barrett</p>

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<p>An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadow. An idealist, however, is one who sees the lights and the shadows, butin addition sees something else: possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.
~Felix Adler</p>

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<p>There are a lot of variations on the excellence/perfection quotation.</p>

<p>The one I am familiar with is this one:</p>

<p>The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
~Edwin Bliss</p>

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<p>Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk!
Clint Eastwood</p>

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<p>“Two roads diverged in a wood and I/I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference” -Robert Frost</p>

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<p>The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  • Frank Zappa</p>
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<p>“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”</p>

<p>Harry S. Truman</p>

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<p>If integrity was easy, we’d all have it.
Author unknown</p>

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<p>That which does not kill you makes you stronger.</p>

<ul>
<li>Neitzsche</li>
</ul>

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<p>God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.
Author unknown</p>

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<p>“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”</p>

<p>Thomas Edison</p>

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<p>Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. Plato</p>

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<p>“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose!”- Dr. Seuss</p>

<p>“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”- Winnie the Pooh</p>

<p>“When we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”- Albert Einstein</p>

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<p>The prologue to Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography contains my favorite passage: <a href=“http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/misc.html[/url]”>http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/misc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.</p>