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02 Aug 2011

To know what you want, to understand why you’re doing it, to
dedicate every breath in your body to achieve… If you feel
you have something to give, if you feel that your particular
talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there’s
nothing you can`t achieve.

– Kevin Spacey

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05 Jul 2011

This is what you shall do

by Walt Whitman

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

“This is what you shall do…” by Walt Whitman, from the preface of Leaves of Grass. Public domain.

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27 Jun 2011

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You must never feel badly about making mistakes as long as you take the trouble to learn from
them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

- Norton Juster

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23 Jun 2011

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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do
something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody
goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a
crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a
champion someday.

                                                - Wilma Rudolph