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 Amelia Earhart
(Aviator, 1897-1937)

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Clint Eastwood
(Politician and Actor)

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Johannes Eckhart
(Theologian, c. 1260-c. 1327)

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any man, no matter how far along his way he’s gone.

Marian Wright Edelman

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would astound ourselves.

Albert Einstein
(Physicist, 1879-1955)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is miracle.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
(34th U.S. President, 1890-1969)

The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

George Eliot
(Writer, 1819-1880)

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibres that knit us to the old.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Walter Elliot

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Ralph Ellison
(Writer, 1914-1994)

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Philosopher and writer, 1803-1882)

That which we persist in doing becomes easier--not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it--and who work for it and live for it.

Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Josepha Murray Emms
(Playwright)

Regardless of circumstances, each man lives in a world of his own making.

Epicetus
(Philosopher, c. 55-135 A.D.)

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

M. C. Escher

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days

I play a tiresome game.

I walk around in mysteries. Each time, youngsters say: you make Op-art too. I don't know what that is, Op-art. This work I have been making for the past thirty years.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Harry Essex

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Euripedes
(Dramatist, c. 484-406 B.C.)

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despair.