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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
American Novelist

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"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know."

- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
English Novelist and Clergyman

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"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."

- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
American Writer

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"I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children.. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward."

- Benjamin Guggenheim, Final words of millionaire traveler aboard the ill-fated Titanic. As the boat began to sink Guggenheim changed into formal dress and calmly faced death. (1865 - 1912)
American businessman

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"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
American Industrialist

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"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."

- Lord Halifax (Edward Wood)
(1881-1959) British Foreign Secretary

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"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
German writer and statesman

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"Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height."

- Buddha

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"It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it."

- Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
American First Lady

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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

- Mary Lou Cook (1918)
American educator

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