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"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."                       - Michael Jordan ...

"No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap ...

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha ...

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." - John Wooden ...

"Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God, but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate ...

"We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still." - Lewis Thomas ...

"Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods." - Abraham Joshua Heschel ...

"The most miserable possession a man can have is the thing he hurt somebody to get."        - Frank A. Clark ...

"Where there is veneration, even a dog’s tooth emits light." - Tibetan proverb ...

"At the boys level, hero worship gravitates toward the doer of spectacular deeds; on the average adult level, toward the wielder of power; and in the eyes of a more critical judgment, toward idealism and moral qualities." - Dixon Wecter ...