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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

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No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

George Chakiris

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines---so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

Eric A. Cornell

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It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea---whether it is to sail or to watch it---we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy 1917-63

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Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They came through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931: The Prophet (1923)

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I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomiest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous.

Dennis Potter 1935-94: Seeing the Blossom (1994)

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Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!
His beak holds more than his belican.
He takes in his beak
Food enough for a week.
But I'll be darned if I know how the helican. (Hell I can)

Dixon Lanier Merritt

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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

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As I understand it, an overachiever is someone who doesn't have much smartness but does a lot of smart things. An underachiever is someone who has a lot of smartness but does a lot of dumb things.

Neil Postman - The End of Education