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• The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Artist, Carpe Diem

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• There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

  Robin Williams

  Wise, Memorable, Learning

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

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Carpe Diem, Law, May

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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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• We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Clever, Carpe Diem

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Creativity, School

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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, Carpe Diem

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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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• 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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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

  Doc Childre

  Carpe Diem, Choices, How You Feel

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (1998). “Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health”, p.6, HeartMath

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

  Jerry Scott

  Carpe Diem

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• There's more to life then living, so hold on.

  Todd Strasser

  Carpe Diem, More To Life

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• Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
  Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

  Horace

  Time, Carpe Diem, Littles

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• What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

  Pablo Neruda

  Carpe Diem, Sky, Tree

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Carpe Diem, Competition, Atmosphere

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• How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

  Alec Baldwin

  Children, Carpe Diem, Humanity

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• If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Heart, Carpe Diem

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.30, Macmillan

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