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SEMI-RETIRED
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A list of some of my favorite quotes:
Wisdom
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Take risks in your life.
If you win, you can lead.
If you lose, you can guide.
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- - Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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- - Gautama Buddha (c. 563 BCE–483 BCE)
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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- - Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
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When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil to others
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- - Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011)
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Politics without principles,
Education without character,
Science without humanity,
Commerce without morality,
are not only useless but dangerous.
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- - Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011)
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Life is Love, enjoy it;
Life is Challenge, meet it;
Life is a Song, sing it;
Life is a Dream, realize it;
Life is a Game, play it;
Life is a Goal, achieve it.
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- - Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011)
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Historical/political
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In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St-Domingue
it will spring back form the roots, for they are numerous and deep.
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- - Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803)
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
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- - Barack Obama
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You can't let your failures define you
you have to let your failures teach you.
You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time.
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- - Barack Obama
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Rap lines
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At exactly which point do you start to realize,
that life without knowledge is death in disguise.
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- - Talib Kweli, "K.O.S. (Determination)"
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I start to think and then I sink,
into the paper like I was ink.
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines,
I escape when I finish the rhyme.
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- - Rakim, "I Know You Got Soul"
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The planet revolves, supposedly, man evolves.
But no problem is solved, 'cause man is the cause.
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- - Ras Kass, "Ordo Abchao (Order Out Of Chaos)"
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Last Updated: ??? 13:38, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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