"The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons."

-- Theognis of Megara

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“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.”
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
“In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.”
“Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Feb 24, 2013
“I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.”
“It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.”

Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.
“I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run... let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?”

Source : Charlie Day's Commencement Address at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2014.
“Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.”

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