<p>Thank you for the link to the Bertrand Russell passage, Porphyria. It is really wonderful!</p>
<p>“Never sweat the small stuff.”</p>
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<li>my father, although I doubt he came up with it.</li>
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<p>Everyone thinks they know what that poem is about. Most don’t.</p>
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<p>This is the first part of one of my favorite quotations. The second part is, “And it’s all small stuff.”</p>
<p>I think I am going to frame the Thomas Edison quote.</p>
<p>Here are the quotes from a random page of my collection:</p>
<p>The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Ellen Parr</p>
<p>If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. - Dennis Roch</p>
<p>Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll still prefer someone give him a fish. - Unknown</p>
<p>Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX (1882-1944), DIPLOMAT AND WRITER</p>
<p>When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that’s my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln (attributed)</p>
<p>Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
–Lao Tzu</p>
<p>Barn’s burnt down–
Now I can see the moon
–Masahide </p>
<p>Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
–Dr. Seuss</p>
<p>“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Ben Franklin</p>
<p>The three secrets of public speaking are: be sincere, be brief, be seated.
- Unknown</p>
<p>“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”-Flannery O’Connor </p>
<p>"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Casey Stengel </p>
<p>“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read”. Groucho Marx</p>
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<p>I love that!</p>
<p>Regarding my D’s SAT/ACT/AP prep - my mantra was “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” (unknown)</p>
<p>I also collect quotes… here are some of my favorites:</p>
<p>“My fellow Americans. I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
- President Ronald Reagan, before a scheduled radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on</p>
<p>“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) </p>
<p>“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
- Lyndon B. Johnson</p>
<p>“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
- Sun Tzu </p>
<p>“If it’s to be, it’s up to me.”
- Colonel Truman Crowford - Director of the Chicago Royal Aires Drum and Bugle Corps, the USMC “Commandant’s Own”, and the USAF Drum and Bugle Corps</p>
<p>“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
- Wayne Gretzky</p>
<p>“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
-Unknown</p>
<p>“I must endure the company of two or three caterpillars if I hope to ever know the butterflies.”
- Antoine de Saint - Exupery</p>
<p>The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vince Lombardi </p>
<p>“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
- Voltaire</p>
<p>“Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.”
- John Wooden</p>
<p>Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats</p>
<p>^^^This one should be emblazoned across the top of every thread on CC!!</p>
<p>I have stenciled on my kitchen wall</p>
<p>Home Sweet Home has never meant Housework Sweet Housework
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman</p>
<p>Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up</p>
<p>Jim Valvano</p>
<p>“And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make”</p>
<p>Lennon-McCartney</p>
<p>“If you were ugly, we’d charge you. Or twelve”
-The night thoreau spent in jail</p>
<p>“I’ll never join another spelling bee, I did in '98 and spelled pine with just an i-n-e. The judge said you forgot the p but it’s running down my leg you see”</p>
<p>“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
— Conan O’Brien</p>
<p>“If you always do what you’ve always done, then you’ll only get what you’ve already got.”
Professor whose name I have forgotten.</p>
<p>“I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.”</p>
<p>—Wally Schirra</p>
<p>… has always had a whit…</p>
<p>Lord Sandwich: “Really, Mr. Wilkes, I don’t know whether you’ll die on the gallows or of the pox.”</p>
<p>John Wilkes: “That depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”</p>
<p>Priceless!!!</p>
<p>“If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.” – Ruth Graham Bell</p>
<p>“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
Theodore Roosevelt</p>
<p>"Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.'</p>
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<li>Langston Hughes</li>
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