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  •  "Dreams are the necessity to live."

     Anais Nin
     French-Cuban Author
     (1903 - 1977)

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  •  "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
     
  •   "Don't be pushed by your problems.  Be led by your dreams."
     
  •  "The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you."
     
  •  "Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

     C. S. Lewis
     British novelist, Academic, Literary Critic, and Essayist
     (1989 - 1963)

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  •  "It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become."

     "Dr. Seuss"
     (Theodor Seuss Geisel, Ph.D), The Lorax
     (1904 - 1991)
     An American writer, poet and cartoonist best known for the 46 children's picture books written 
     and illustrated as Dr. Seuss.  Names used included Dr. Theophrastus Seuss in college and later
     Theo LeSieg and once Rosetta Stone in addition to Dr. Seuss.  From his works 11 television
     specials, 4 feature films, a Broadway musical and 4 television series were created.  A true
     profectionist it was not uncommon for him to discard 95% of his material until he settled on a
     theme for a book which could take up to a year to write and only accepted payment upon
     completion of the book.  His birthday, March 2, has been adopeted as the annual date for
     National     Read Across America     Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education
     Association.

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  • "Always desire to learn something useful."

     Sophocles
     Ancient Greece Playwright
     (497 BC - 406 BC)

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  •  "Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream."

     Kahlil Gibran
     Essayist, Novelist, Poet
     (1883 - 1931)

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  •  "Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great."
     
  •  "Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
     
  •  "Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." 
     
  •  "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
     
  •  "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.
      It was here first."
     
  •  "Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heals, or any other
      way you can manage it."
     
  •  “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do
      than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.
      Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.”
     
     "Mark Twain"
     (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 
     American writer, Humorist
     (1835 - 1910)
     
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  •  "All of us fail to match our dreams to perfection.  So I rate us on the basis of our
      splendid failure to do the impossible."
     
  •  "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.  Don't bother just to be
      better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself."
     
  •  "I believe that man will not merely endure.  He will prevail.  He is immortal, not because
      he along among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a
      spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
     
     William Faulkner
     American Writer
     (1897 - 1962)

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  •  "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to
      attempt."

     William Shakespeare
     Playwright
     (Baptized 1564 - Died 1616)