"At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else."

-- Jackie Robinson

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“Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.”

Source : Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”
“Not working in journalism enables full attention to writing projects, which is good. But I miss the benefits of daily contact with people who are younger, energetic, engaged. And the necessary involvement with people and places and situations that enrich the imagination. I miss the enforced encounters with unusual projections of reality.”
“Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by comparing the facts in one compartment with those in all others, thus giving a vision of the whole.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.”
“The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.”
“I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.”
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams”
“You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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