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Great Quotes...
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it" - Albert Einstein

"People can not discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore" - Andre Gide

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi

"I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more." - Katherine Hepburn

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Native American Proverb

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

"When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people." Chinese proverb: Guanzi (c. 645BC)

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." George Bernard Shaw

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace" John Lennon

"You never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller

"Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers." Unknown