Some meaningful quotes that reflect our views and attitudes or that just seem to ring true.

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Fred Hollows  -  an ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries.

"The great challenges are not really personal challenges...how much can I do?

The great challenges are, what structures can I help set in place that will alter things?"

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Albert Einstein  -  The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Information is not knowledge."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

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Coach John Wooden - Legendary UCLA basketball coach

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."

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Niccolo Machiavelli - The father of modern political theory

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,
than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
                                                                               The Prince 1532
                                                                             

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Malcolm Forbes -publisher of Forbes magazine from 1957 to 1990.

"Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name  Mark Twain, was most noted for his novels

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

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Theodore Roosevelt   -   26th President of the United States of America

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he
 
wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

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Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower  -   5 Star General in the United States Army and 34th President of the USA

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."


"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

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