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With homage to WhitmanO'Neill, Dr. Bill, and TheFallibleFiend
"We are here to be excited from youth to old age, to have an insatiable curiousity about the world. Aldous Huxley once said that to carry the spirit of the child into old-age is the secret of genius. And I buy that. We are also here to genuinely, humbly and sincerely help others by practicing a friendly attitude. And every person is born for a purpose. Everyone has a God-given potential, in essence, built into them. And if we are to live life to its fullest, we must realize that potential."
Norman Vincent Peale
The Power of Positive Thinking
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One big difference between children and adults is that children have not become cynical. I like the definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
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Aldous Huxley once said that to carry the spirit of the child into old-age is the secret of genius.
A motto I love -- because it has a profound meaning wrapped up at the core of the obvious silly one -- is
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Uno Mas
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at worst if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat,"
T. Roosevelt
April 23, 1910
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Things worth remembering...
The value of time.
The success of perseverance.
The dignity of simplicity.
The worth of character.
The virtue of patience.
The wisdom of economy.
THE POWER OF KINDNESS.
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And the quiet pride of having lived by the Golden Rule
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Uno MasThanks for that, marylynn...and for all the other fine, uplifting words you've shared. 
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marylynn I agree that T. Roosevelt's speech is a good one. On a lighter note, here is a tongue-in-cheek sign a friend of mine has posted in her lab:
"Lord, please grant me the patience to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of all those people I had to kill because they were getting on my nerves."
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"Lord, please grant me...
And on my office wall...
Lord, please grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference
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the spirit of a child in old age
Aldous Huxley may have said it best, but Sir Francis Bacon, still acknowledged as "the founder of modern science", said it first:
Into the kingdom of knowledge, as into the kingdom of Heaven, one must become as a little child."
And what of Wordworth's "trailing glory", and the final image in Stanley Kubrick's "2001, A Space Odyssey"?
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