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1.

 Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - John Keats

 

2.

 Only the educated are free - Epictetus

 

3.

 Learn to live, and live to learn - Bayard Taylor

 

4.

 Life is a series of surprise - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

5.

 I owe it all to little chocolate donuts - John Belushi

 

6.

 If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon - James Russell Lowell

 

7.

 Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects - Will Rogers

 

8.

 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers

 

9.

 You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is - Will Rogers

 

10.

 Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

11.

 Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce - John F. Kennedy

 

12.

 Our science and industry owe their strength to the spirit of free inquiry and the spirit of free enterprise that characterize our country - Harry S Truman

 

13.

 The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat - Lily Tomlin

 

14.

 Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt - Herbert Hoover

 

15.

 Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth - Mohammad Ali

 

16.

 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance - Will Durant

 

17.

 A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing - George Bernard Shaw

 

18.

 Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them - William Shakespeare

 

19.

 Nothing can seem foul to those that win - William Shakespeare

 

20.

 What the heck are you guys doin'? Tryin' to ruin my life and make me look like a freakin' idiot? - Napolean Dynamite

 

21.

 Begin to be now what you will be hereafter - St. Jerome

 

22.

 In the fields of observation, chance favors only the mind that is prepared - Louis Pasteur

 

23.

 Be ashamed to die before you have won some victory for humanity - Horace Mann

 

24.

 Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages - Henry Ward Beecher

 

25.

 In creating, the only hard thing's to begin - James Russell Lowell

 

26.

 Knowledge is power - Sir Francis Bacon

 

27.

 Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am -- not with what we know -- but with how tremendous the areas are that are as yet unexplored - John H. Glenn, Jr.

 

28.

 Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing - Theodore Roosevelt

 

29.

 Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader - Tactitus

 

30.

 There is no escape -- man drags man down, or man lifts man up - Booker T. Washington

 

31.

 God helps them that help themselves - Benjamin Franklin

 

32.

 We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

33.

 Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail - Charles Kettering

 

34.

 It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again - Charles Kettering

 

35.

 Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something - Thomas A. Edison

 

36.

 There is no substitute for hard work - Thomas A. Edison

 

37.

 I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work - Thomas A. Edison

 

38.

 There's a way to do it better -- find it - Thomas A. Edison

 

39.

 To have a great idea, have a lot of them - Thomas A. Edison

 

40.

 Don't find fault, find a remedy - Henry Ford

 

41.

 If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford

 

42.

 Quality means doing it right when no one is looking - Henry Ford

 

43.

 I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly - Ty Cobb

 

44.

 Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood - Marie Curie

 

45.

 Form follows function -- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union - Frank Lloyd Wright

 

46.

 Less is only more where more is no good - Frank Lloyd Wright

 

47.

 There is nothing more uncommon than common sense - Frank Lloyd Wright

 

48.

 Each person must live their life as a model for others - Rosa Parks

 

49.

 Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music - Ronald Reagan

 

50.

 While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future - Ronald Reagan

 

51.

 Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things - Peter F. Drucker

 

52.

 The computer is a moron - Peter F. Drucker

 

53.

 The best way to predict the future is to create it - Peter F. Drucker

 

54.

 The harder I work, the luckier I get - Samuel Goldwyn

 

55.

 You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere - Lee Iacocca

 

56.

 In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits - Lee Iacocca

 

57.

 If it is a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is get permission - Grace Murray Hopper

 

58.

 In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is - Yogi Berra

 

59.  

 All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them - Walt Disney

 


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