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“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

“We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

“impossible is not a word”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
― Ben Carson M.D.

“Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.”
― Ben Carson M.D., My Life: Based on the Book Gifted Hands

“If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.”
― Ben Carson M.D.

“No knowledge is ever wasted. To quote the apostle Paul: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28).”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.”
― Ben Carson M.D.

“The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Investors place bets in a portfolio of companies, but I only have one life”
― Tim Romero

“Partly because it is such a complex process, reading is not just a habit our a skill, it's a deeply satisfying emotional experience. Something in us knows that the slimmest insights, the trust wisdom, the most enduring knowledge come through this channel. The spleen word rushes by and is gone, but the written word remains. It ensures. It can be consulted over and over again. Forever.

How wise then to surround oneself with books and magazines.

How wise to love them, and to teach one's children to love them.

How wise to read!”
― Arthur Gordon Those Little Black Marks, quoted in Norman Vincent Peale, (c 1984), p. 56.