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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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• We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Death, Courage

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 36, 2005.

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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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• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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

  Evan Esar

  Zoos, Carpe Diem, Study

  "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, Carpe Diem, Men

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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

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

  Jean Bodin

  Mistake, Carpe Diem, Teach

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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, Carpe Diem

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• It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

  John R. Platt

  Carpe Diem, Ideas, Years

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• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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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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• Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

  Martin Luther

  School, Carpe Diem, Skills

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• The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

  W. W. Dumas

  Art, Carpe Diem, Cities

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• My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

  John Hendricks

  Attitude, Philosophy, Carpe Diem

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• Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Character, Carpe Diem

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• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

  Keter Betts

  Carpe Diem, World, Wells

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Loneliness, Math

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