Collin Powell (1937- )

Powell
in March 2005

Author:
Charles
Haynes

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Collin Powell (1937- )

Colin Luther Powell (/ˈkoʊlɨn/; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Persian Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was the first of two consecutive African American office-holders to hold the key administration position of U.S. Secretary of State.

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Quotes·Quotations by Collin Powell

Nationality·Patriotism

¶ I started out believing in an America where anyone, given equal opportunity, can succeed through hard work and faith.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow,
photographed by
Julia Margaret
Cameron in 1868

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

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Hope

¶ Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

Richard Dawkins (1941- )

Richard Dawkins (1941- )

Clinton Richard Dawkins /ˈdɔːkɨnz/, DSc, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

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Quotes·Quotations by Richard Dawkins

Myth

¶ Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. [The Magic Of Reality (2012)]

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David Assael

David Assael

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Quotes·Quotations by David Assael

Spring

¶ Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.

David Henrie (1989- )

David Henrie (1989- )

David Clayton Henrie (born July 11, 1989) is an American actor, television writer, and producer. He is noted for playing Ted Mosby's future son on How I Met Your Mother, Justin Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place and Larry on That's So Raven. He is the elder brother of the actor Lorenzo Henrie.

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Quotes·Quotations by David Henrie

David Henrie as Justin Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place (2011)

¶ We're wizards. I don't think we have a choice. [Wizards of Waverly Place, Wizards vs. Angels (2011) #4.09/10]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Henrie

Doc Searls (1947- )

Doc Searls (1947- )

David "Doc" Searls (born July 29, 1947), co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely-read blogger, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow (2006–2010) of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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Quotes·Quotation by David Searls

Death

¶ Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls

Dave Bowman (2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968)

Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Quotes·Quotations by Keir Dullea

Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

¶ Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

Navajo Nation

Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo) is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering 27,425 square miles (71,000 km2), occupying all of northeastern Arizona, the southeastern portion of Utah and northwestern New Mexico. It is the largest land area assigned primarily to a Native American jurisdiction within the United States.

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Proverb

Family·Parenting

¶ A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_people

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books.

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Quotes·Quotations by Napoleon Hill

Attitude

¶ If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones, and make them great.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri (c. 1 June 1265 – 13/14 September 1321), better known as Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered as one of the greatest literary statements produced in Europe in the medieval period and it is the basis of the modern Italian language.

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Hope

@ Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in.
[Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto III: The Gate of Hell, line 9.]

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri