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Against All Odds
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
Liberty
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the the survival and the success of liberty. -John F. Kennedy
Diminishing Lunacy
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him, than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -C.S. Lewis
Deception
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. -Leonardo da Vinci
Family
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. -Lee Iacoccca
Gaining Wisdom
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius
Education
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free Men
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live ...
Spring Fever
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! -- Mark Twain
False Friends
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Welcome Prosperity
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. -- Anne Bradstreet
Eternal Spring
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Be Patient
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. -- Robert H. Schuller
Limiters of Happiness
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness ...
Friends
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Face the Sunshine
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. -- Helen Keller
Music
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -- Plato
The Paranoid
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. -- ...
Sorrow
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. -- Robert Frost
War Lessons
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded ...
Value of a Moment
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. -- Unknown
Obsession
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. -- Norman Mailer
Giving Gifts
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. -- George MacDonald
First Responders
I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women. -- Vijay Kumar
Corruption-Proof
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam