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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson

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I don't walk away from people to teach them a lesson. I walk away when I've learned mine.

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"Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change." - Virginia H. Pearce

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"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard

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"If it's not fun, fix it until it is." - Venus Williams

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People say, "If you get on the wrong train, be sure to get off at the first stop. The longer you stay on, the more expensive the return trip is going to cost you."

They weren't talking about trains.

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"There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader." - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

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If you're pleasing everyone, then you're lying to someone.

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What do we call the gap between the ideal and reality? Politics.

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"We must direct our reason toward Him, and not Him toward our reason. He is the corrector of our reason. The sun is not regulated according to our clock, but our clock is regulated according to the sun." - St. Nikolai Velimirovich

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When a husband cleans the dishes, he's not offering his wife help. He's cleaning the dishes.

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If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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Fear is "What if." Faith is "Even if."

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"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein

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"The absence of conflict is not harmony, it's apathy. If you're in a group where people never disagree, the only way that could really happen is if people don't care enough to speak their minds." - Adam Grant

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"Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young."

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"If you give your whole life to the earth, the earth will give you a tomb. But if you give your whole life to Heaven, Heaven will give you a throne." - St. Ephraim the Syrian

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"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Epictetus

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Root flares do not grow from old trees. Old trees grow from root flares. In the same sense, wisdom does not come from lasting marriages. Lasting marriages come from wisdom.