Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 9

• Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, School, Doors

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• If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Generations, Urban

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• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, People, Secret

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• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  Evan Esar

  Zoos, Study, Habit

  "Esar's Comic Dictionary". Book by Evan Esar, 1943.

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Men, Civilization

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• And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Freedom, Home

  Francis Scott Key, “Defence Of Fort M'Henry”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Liberty, Flags

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

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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

  Anxiety, Alarms, Disaster

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

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Fruit, Libertarian

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, People, Rich

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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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

  Men, Lazy, Half

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• So act that anything you do may become universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, May, Universal

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• To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

  Corita Kent

  Looks, Way, Look Up

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• Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

  John Cage

  Thinking, Enjoy, Manage

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• In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

  Corita Kent

  Giants, Would Be, World

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• There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dare, Carpe, Coldness

  "The Teaching of Reverence for Life".

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• Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Grief, Joy

  John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.143

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• Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Looks

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2015

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• When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Wise, Expression, World

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• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Real, Love You, Love Is

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• It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Book, Cooking

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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, Individuality

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• Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

  Eugene S. Ferguson

  Art, Creativity, Pyramids

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, College

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• Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

  Maria Shriver

  Art, Unique, Essentials

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