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Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Orson Scott Card

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Ben Hogan

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Andrei Sakharov

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

Joan Chen

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Michael Crichton

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

John Mica

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Ina Garten