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" The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. "

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" When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. "

" Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' "

" Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself. "

Sharon Salzberg

" No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. "

" There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. "

Orison Swett Marden

" The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. "

" To be great is to be misunderstood. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened. "

Henry Kissinger

" I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. "

" We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. "

Charles R. Swindoll

" Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. "

" With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance. "

" I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. "

" A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. "

" The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. "

" On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. "

" The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. "

" One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height. "

" Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up. "

" Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. "

" It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can't even get testimonials. No, no; if a man brings references, it proves nothing; but if he can't, it proves a great deal. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. "

John F. Kennedy

" Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. "

" Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it. "

Brian O'Driscoll

" In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom. "

" Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart. "