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• Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

  John F. Kennedy

  Plato, Ambition, Carpe Diem

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• We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

  Robin Williams

  Cute, Writing, Carpe Diem

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Healing, Carpe Diem

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• I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Different

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

  Terry Pratchett

  Stronger, Doe, Remember

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.380, Random House

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• Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Cutting, Carpe Diem, Our World

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• Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

  Tertullian

  Beauty, Eye, Carpe Diem

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• I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

  Joan Crawford

  Life, Carpe Diem, Aries

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1949.

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• Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

  Robert Breault

  Carpe Diem, Preparation, Might

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• We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

  Mark Twain

  Carpe Diem, Self, People

  Following the Equator ch. 14, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

  Tayeb Salih

  Book, Heart, Carpe Diem

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.5, Heinemann

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• find your eternity in each moment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Carpe Diem, Islands, Eternity Of Life

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Carpe Diem, Filthy

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Carpe Diem, Fruit

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Carpe Diem, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Carpe Diem, Anxiety, Alarms

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Carpe Diem, Political, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Carpe Diem, Men, Lazy

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• It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

  George Washington

  Peace, Carpe Diem, Alliances

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

  Jean Bodin

  Mistake, Carpe Diem, Teach

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

  Og Mandino

  Life, Carpe Diem, Men

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