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#1

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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#2

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: education

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#3

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: education

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#4

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: laziness, opportunity, work

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#5

“The journey is the thing.”
― Homer

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#6

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
― Longfellow

tags: accuracy

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#7

“continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.”
― George S. Patton Jr., War as I Knew It

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#8

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#9

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational

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#10

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

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#11

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

tags: progress-henry-ford

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#12

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness

tags: missed-chances, opportunities

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#13

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity

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#14

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: inspirational

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#15

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#16

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#17

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
― Helen Keller

tags: inspirational

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#18

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchhill

tags: giving

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#19

“Choose your love. Love your choice.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: choices, love

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#20

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#21

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ”
― John F. Kennedy

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#22

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

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#23

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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#24

“In great attemps it is glorious even to fail”
― Vince Lombardi

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#25

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#26

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

tags: guilt

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#27

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

tags: copernicus, knowledge, wisdom

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#28

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: excellence

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#29

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#30

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: excellence, inspirational

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