"A blind boy paid his way to a master's degree at Northwestern University by taking notes on class lectures in Braille, typing them, and selling copies to classmates who had stronger eyes but weaker ambition."
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“You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing.”
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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"Here's something that will really make you feel grown up," said a father to his teenage daughter, "Your very own phone bill."
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"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am because the world could use a few people like that." --Alan Alda
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"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."
-- Jim Bishop