"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.“
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
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