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Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimi

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. – Author Unknown

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver

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If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. – Confucius

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost

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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. – Jean Piaget

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I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. Ive always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband. – Little Richard

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