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Stuarts Web Site
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Date: 7-12-2014
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Number of Hours: 0.01
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Brief Description: Life's challenges
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Life's challenges
Every day life throws something new at us ... the challenge is to learn from it. Smart quotes bring me back to reality if the going gets tough. Some of my favourites:
1. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it - Aristotle
2. Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it - Jules Renard
3. Act loving even when you don't feel like it
4. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues - Cicero
5. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas Edison
6. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt
7. General notions are generally wrong - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
8. The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own - Leo Stein
9. Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours - Salman Rushdie
10. The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice - Ernest Hemingway
11. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain - William Shakespeare
12. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm - Bruce Barton
13. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change - Stephen Hawking
14. It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning - Agnes Repplier
15. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence - Robert Frost
16. Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be - Clementine Paddleford
17. Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little - Lee Iacocca
18. Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done - Amelia Earhart
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