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"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much."

- Erastus Wiman (1834 - 1904)
Canadian journalist and businessman

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"One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
American Protestant Minister

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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

- Donald A. Adams (1925)
former president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
American Novelist

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"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."

- E. Merrill Root (1895 - 1973)
American Writer

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"It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of a man's hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith."

- Donald Douglas (1892 - 1981)
American, Founder Douglas Aircraft Company, later McDonnell Douglas

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"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."

- David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
English novelist

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"We've all got to go to school, I expect, and we don't all get the same lesson to learn, but the one we do get is our'n, 'taint nobody else's, and if it's real hard, why, it shows the teacher thinks we're capable."

- Rose Terry Cooke (1827 - 1892)
American author and poet

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"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."

- Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
French Moralist and Writer

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"Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."

- Stanley Baldwin (1867 - 1947)
Former British Prime Minister

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