Harry S. Truman

U.S. president
(1884-1972)

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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This is WHY when attacked, we don't just "rent" our clothes and weep and wail. We mourn, but we get up and stop the would be oppressors. Japan learned this in WWII after Pearl Harbor; Iraq (and their brethren) is learning this now after the attack on the Twin Towers.

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Honore de Balzac

French writer
(1799-1850)

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. {C~B~N would add bankers, car mechanics, & politicians!}

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.


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Sir James M. Barrie

Scottish writer
(1860-1937)

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.


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Dante Alighieri

Italian writer
(1265-1321)

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.


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Stephen R Covey

We are not human beings on a

spiritual journey.

We are spiritual beings on a

human journey.

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Katherine Anne Porter

U.S. writer
(1890-1980)

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation {SIN} sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism {self-denial} was supposed to give and quite often did not.

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Audrey Hepburn

A Classy Lady all the way.

American actor
(1929-1993)

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.



Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Dear Friends: In light of the recent Tsunami disaster, the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund has donated $100,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in order to aid in the care and protection of the children involved in this recent disaster. We feel fortunate to have been able to help in this dire emergency and hope to be prepared to do so again in the future.

Donations to help the Fund recoup this emergency donation would be gratefully accepted and deeply appreciated. You may contribute directly through the Website or by mailing a contribution to:

Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund

710 Wilshire Boulevard -

Suite 600

Santa Monica, CA 90401

As a reminder, contributions are tax deductible and an acknowledgement letter will be mailed to you immediately.

Best regards and thanks,

Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Chairman & Founder, Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund

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James Monroe

American president
(1758-1831)

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.



The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. (From the Monroe Doctrine) {Or Islamic powers....African powers....Mexican powers.....Pick your powers.....}

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