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FIVE Lessons

1 - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady . During my second month of college, our professor Gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read The last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the Cleaning woman several times. She was tall, Dark-haired and in her 50's, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question Blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if The last question would count toward our quiz grade. "Absolutely, " said the professor. "In your careers, You will meet many people. All are significant.. They Deserve your attention and care, even if all you do Is smile and say "hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her Name was Dorothy. 2. - Second Important Lesson - Pickup in the Rain One night, at 11:30 p..m., an older African American Woman

Collection of Quotes from Criminal Minds

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452046/ 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.' Samuel Beckett ‘The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” Churchill Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them." The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, "Evil is always unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table." Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Abraham Lincoln once said "In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourse