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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. KennedyI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham LincolnChildren are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. KennedyPolitics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston ChurchillMy words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare |
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen. Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self. The engineering is secondary to the vision. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours. When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. |
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. |
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