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"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, BOTD, 1811.
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"The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me."
- Thurgood Marshall
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
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"Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both."
- Jeannette Rankin
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Why does this Judy Garland quote feel ironic to me? "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." —Judy Garland. I think this is profound because she had to fight for this her entire life against her Hollywood masters. Watch “A Star is Born,” 1954.
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Jun 9
This leash of foxes slept in, but a later-morning romp is underway!
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Jun 9
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
-- Charles Dickens
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Jun 8
Coffee with the Sunrise Shenanigans Society and the Whistle Pig Plunger (git dat ground hog, boy!)
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Jun 7
"Just start by creating your day. Then create your life."
- Prince, BOTD 1958. HBD, P; we miss you.
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Bobby Kennedy
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Jun 5
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
- Ray Bradbury
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Jun 5
"Congratulations. You're destroying the capitalist system. While everybody else in the world is embracing it, my boys and girls are f---ing it up! You know what happens when capitalism gets f---ed up? The communists come back. They come out of the bushes. Don't kid yourself. They're waiting in there…"
—Lawrence Garfield (Danny DeVito) in “Other People’s Money,” 1991.
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John Wooden became a legend by winning a record 10 NCAA championships in 12 years while teaching timeless leadership through his "Pyramid of Success."
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"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
- John Wooden
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Jun 3
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
- Muhammad Ali. DOTD, 2016. Thanks for everything, champ.
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Jun 2
"I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."
- Soccer Star, Abby Wambach, Happy 46th Birthday!
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Jun 1
"Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort."
- Morgan Freeman
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