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Barack Obama Quote – Slip Between Worlds

"I learned to slip back and forth between m black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than ...

E. E. Cummings Quote – To Be Nobody But Yourself

"To be nobody but yourself in a world doing it's best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting" - E. E. Cummings ...

Groucho Marx Quote – In Politics, Sincerity Is Everything

“In politics, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”                 - Groucho Marx ...

Mary Parker Follett Quote – Reconciling Our Differences

"We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our ...

Henry David Thoreau Quote – Success

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”                                 - Henry David Thoreau ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – The Divine Assails Us

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ...

Aung San Suu Kyi Quote – Women Are Valued

"In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." - Aung San Suu Kyi ...

Bill McKibben Quote – We Didn’t Do Much

"We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, ...

Winner’s Creed

Winner's Creed - "If you think you are beaten, you are; if you think you dare not, you don't; if you'd like to win, but think you can't, it's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've ...

Dolly Parton Quote – Find Out Who You Are

"Find out who you are, and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton ...