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"the cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." ~ Isak Dinesen

"a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde

"every man is the architect of his own fortune." ~ Sallust

"the chance of ultimate possibility kept repeating itself in his head, a mad little chant that would not stop, nor did he want it to ... everything is chance, and chance is everything ... most people refused to believe that, because chance frightened them. But that was only ignorance. chance contained every possibility. of course, some of it might be bad--that was what the ignorant dwelled on, and it was what frightened them--but a heartbeat away from what might be bad, unthinkably bad, was what might be unthinkably great, a bliss that even the gods would envy." ~Harry Crews, Celebration

"it has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. but the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ~Neil Gaiman

"you believe the world is perfectible, and so you find it unsatisfying." ~Tony Kushner Angels in America

"the world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." ~Charles Kettering

"they know how to run a business just like the bush administration knows how to run the country...Jerry is W, Sue is Condi and Jeff Weiner is Rumsfeld... oh, and Ash is that guy who was in charge of katrina relief... ~ Alley Insider

"change before you have to." ~ Jack Welch

“it is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"the future is no more uncertain that the present." ~ Walt Whitman

"why settle for looking good when you can look positively lethal? ~Kraig Graham

"it is not to be busy; the question is what are we busy about?" ~Henry David Thoreau

"don't let what you don't have blind what you do have." ~ Howard W. Hunter

"opportunity is just another name for growth." ~Andrew Cushing

"a friend is one whom i may think aloud." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." ( via ) -Herman Melville

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“We do not have to accept mediocrity or compromise our values. We can decide to be great, we can address great problems, we can see great possibilities ." - Senator John Edwards