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“Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you [...]

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but [...]

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. [...]

“We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.”  Lucy Maud Montgomery

(Let’s remember the importance of communicating with one another). “Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.”  Freeman Teague Jr.    

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”  Anonymous

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”  Karen Ravn

“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”  W. E. B. Du Bois

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”  Beverly Sills

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”  Vince Lombardi

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”  Maya Angelou

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”  George Bernard Shaw

“We do not remember days. We remember moments…”  Anonymous

“The only time you lose is when you quit…”  Anonymous

Pew Research did a survey among Millennials to see how they were coping with the economy. The report said, “there are some significant differences in the impact of the recession among young adults by race, particularly in the areas of education and employment. The economic data show that young blacks have an even higher unemployment [...]

“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”  Albert Einstein

“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”  Steve Jobs

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”  Howard Thurman – Author and Philosopher

p o l y c u l t u r a l i s m Footsteps coined the term “polyculturalism” in 2009 to describe the evolving cultural shift of ethnic minority nuances defining pop culture. These mashups of borrowing and blending the best from a variety of sources to create unique content, and then sharing [...]

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”  Abigail Adams

“It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be.”  Anonymous

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”  Winston Churchill

“Those who do things that count never stop to count them.”  Anonymous