Famous People

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Famous People

• Fame is a bee.
• It has a song
• It has a sting
• Ah, too, it has a wing.
• Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

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Famous People

• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the
  actions stems the dream again and this
  interdependence produces the highest form of
  living. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

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The way we look on things

• If you treat men the way they are, you never
  improve them. If you treat them the way you want
  them to be, you do. Goethe
• Talent is only the starting point. Irving Berlin
• You must be the change you wish to see in the
  world. Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
  then they fight you, then you win.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if
  you were to live forever.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you
  friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need.
  I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the
  Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let
  us work together for unity and love.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• Seven social sins
• 1. Politics without principles
• 2. Wealth without work
• 3. Pleasure without conscience
• 4. knowledge without character
• 5. Commerce without morality
• 6. Science without humanity
• 7. Worship without sacrifice.

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Martin Luther

• Martin Luther (November 10, 1483February 18,
  1546) was a German monk, theologian, and church
  reformer.
• His translation of the Bible into the vernacular,
  making it more accessible to ordinary people, had
  a tremendous political impact on the church and
  on German culture.

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Martin Luther

• It furthered the development of a standard
  version of the German language, added several
  principles to the art of translation, and
  influenced the translation of the English King
  James Bible.
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss
  events. Small minds discuss people. (Eleanor
  Roosevelt)

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• When Eleanor was eight, her mother died of
  diphtheria and she and her brothers were sent to
  live with her maternal grandmother, New York
• Just before Eleanor turned ten, she was orphaned
  when her father died of complications of
  alcoholism.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• In his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of
  Eleanor Roosevelt, author Joseph Lash describes
  her during this period of childhood as insecure
  and starved for affection, considering herself
  "ugly".

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• At her memorial service, Adlai Stevenson asked,
  "What other single human being has touched and
  transformed the existence of so many?" Stevenson
  also said that Roosevelt was someone "who would
  rather light a candle than curse the darkness."

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by
  every experience in which you really stop to look
  fear in the face. You are able to say to
  yourself, I have lived through this horror. I
  can take the next thing that comes along. You
  must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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Think of this

• Twenty years from now you will be more
  disappointed by the things you didnt do than by
  the
• ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
  away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
• in your sails. Explore. Dream.
• Mark Twain.

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The way we look on things

• Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing
  suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like
  a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a
  thief. But the man found his ax while digging in
  the valley, and the next time he saw his
  neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke
  like any other child. -Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th
  century BCE)

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Mother Teresa

• Mother Teresa (Albanian, August 26, 1910
  September 5, 1997) was a Roman Catholic nun who
  founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata
  (Calcutta), India in 1950.
• For over forty years she ministered to
• the poor,
• sick,
• orphaned, and
• dying, while guiding the Missionaries of
  Charity's expansion, first throughout India and
  then in other countries.

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Mother Teresa

• Following her death she was beatified by Pope
  John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa
  of Calcutta
• Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to
  you without coming away better and happier.
• Be the living expression of God's kindness.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

• Diana Frances née Spencer July 1961 31
  August 1997
• was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
• Their sons, Princes William and Henry (Harry),
  are second and third in line to the thrones of
  the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth
  Realms.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

• In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was one of
  the first high-profile celebrities to be
  photographed touching a person infected with HIV
  at the 'chain of hope' organization.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

• Bill Clinton
• In 1987, when so many still believed that AIDS
  could be contracted through casual contact,
  Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a man with
  AIDS and held his hand. She showed the world that
  people with AIDS deserve no isolation, but
  compassion and kindness. It helped change world's
  opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

• Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to
  be, doing what I can.
• Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for
  each other and, in the process, care for
  ourselves.
• I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet
  the people and love them.

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Alexander Fleming

• Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881
• 11 March 1955) was a Scottish
• biologist and pharmacologist.
• "When I woke up just after dawn on September 28,
  1928,I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all
  medicine by discovering the world's first
  antibiotic, or bacteria killer," Fleming would
  write later, "But I guess that's exactly what I
  did."

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Alexander Fleming

• Fleming's accidental discovery and isolation of
  penicillin in September 1928 marks the start of
  modern antibiotics.
• Fleming also discovered very early that bacteria
  developed antibiotic resistance whenever too
  little penicillin was used or when it was used
  for too short a period.

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Louis Pasteur

• he created the first vaccine for rabies.
• He is regarded as one of the three main founders
  of microbiology,
• He is buried beneath the Institut Pasteur, an
  incredibly rare honor in France, where being
  buried in a cemetery is mandatory save for the
  fewer than 300 "Great Men" who are entombed in
  the Panthéon

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Think of this

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have
  exactly the same number of hours per day that
  were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
  Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
  Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -H.
  Jackson Brown, Jr., writer