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EARTH : We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. (Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

EARTH : I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. (Walt Whitman, U.S. essayist, journalist,and poet, known as the Father of Free Verse, 1819-1992)

EARTH : I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E.B. White, U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed childrenâ€™s book, Charlotteâ€™s Web, 1899-1985)

EATING : Thou should not eat to live; not live to eat. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)

ECOLOGY : When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. (Alanis Obomsawin, Canadian filmmaker, Born 1932)

ECOLOGY : The forests are my lungs outside the body. (Joanna Macy, U.S. environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology, Born 1929)

ECOLOGY : Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. (Holmes Rolston III, U.S. professor of environmental ethics whose contributions include the relationship between science and religion, Born 1932)

ECOLOGY : Imagine that if trees gave Wi-Fi, we would all be planting trees like crazy and would end deforestation. It's a pity that they only produce the oxygen that we breathe to live. (Unknown Source)

ECOLOGY : The forests are my lungs outside the body. (Unknown Source)

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT : Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)

ECONOMIC INVESTMENT : Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. (Unknown Source)

ECONOMIC INVESTMENT : Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)

ECONOMICS : [We have] socialism for the rich and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

ECONOMICS : Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ECONOMICS : [We have] socialism for the rich and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor. (Unknown Source)

ECONOMICS : Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them. (Unknown source)

ECONOMY - ENVIRONMENT : Whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; if your vision is for 10 years, plant trees; but if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : Unlearned in history, people allow themselves to be governed by the Unknown Past. (Lord Acton, English historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

EDUCATION : We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

EDUCATION : For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife. (John Dewey, U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

EDUCATION : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; If your vision is for 10 years, plant trees. But if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth. (Chinese proverb)

EDUCATION : The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

EDUCATION : The mind, once enlightened, cannot again be dark. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

EDUCATION : Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant, U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

EDUCATION : Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. (Swamiji Vivekananda, Indian Hindu monk, 1863-1902)

EDUCATION : The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

EDUCATION : Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

EDUCATION : If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Sarah Boseley, U.S. writer, editor of the Guardian, and recipient of several awards for her worldwide health-related projects)

EDUCATION : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

EDUCATION : Education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013)

EDUCATION : When you open a school, you close a jail. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)

EDUCATION : An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place. (Johnnetta B. Cole, U.S. antropologist and educator, Born 1936)

EDUCATION : Sometimes our institutions [the schools] are like sand dunes in the desert-shaped more by influences than purposes. (John Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

EDUCATION : Education is what survives when what you have learned has been forgotten. (B.F. Skinner, U.S. psychologist, professor, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher, (1904-1990)

EDUCATION : Sometimes our institutions, the schools, are like sand dunes in the desertï¿½shaped more by influences than purposes. (John Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

EDUCATION : Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. (John W. Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

EDUCATION : Sometimes our institutions (the schools) are like sand dunes in the desert-shaped more by influences than purposes. (John Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

EDUCATION : If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Unknown source)

EDUCATION : Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of oneï¿½s country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis, Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

EDUCATION : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas. (Richard D. Kahlenberg, U.S. scholar and advocate of the economic integration movement in K-12 schooling, Born 1963)

EDUCATION : If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. (Rudy Manikan)

EDUCATION : If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. (Derek Bok, U.S. lawyer, educator, and the former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)

EDUCATION : If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet, 1672-1719)

EDUCATION : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown source)

EDUCATION : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

EDUCATION : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Unknown Source)

EDUCATION : Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin, British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books Born 1944)

EDUCATION - POVERTY : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown source)

EDUCTION : The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

EFFICIENCY : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

EFFICIENCY : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Unknown Source)

EGALITARIANISM : We all do better when we all do better. (Paul Wellstone, U.S. academic and politician, 1944-2002)

EGOISM : When two egoists meet, it becomes a situation of an I for an I. (Unknown source)

EGOTISM : The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. (Lucille S. Harper, U.S. writer, 1912-1995)

EGOTISM : Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine, Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857)

EGOTISM : If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. (Helen Van Slyke, U.S. best-selling author, newspaper and magazine editor, and business executive, 1919-1979)

EMBARRASSMENT : To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. (John Leonard, U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)

EMBARRASSMENT : To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. (Unknown Source)

EMPLOYMENT : The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. (Douglas Jerrold, English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

ENCOURAGEMENT : Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ENCOURAGEMENT : Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. (Unknown Source)

ENDOWMENT : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth, U.S. novelist, Born 1933)

ENDURANCE : Endurance is patience concentrated. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

ENEMIES : I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

ENEMIES : Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

ENEMIES : If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

ENEMIES : We have met the enemy and he is us. (Walt Kelly, U.S. animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, 'Pogo,' 1913-1973)

ENEMIES : Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malaysian proverb)

ENEMIES : We have met the enemy, and he is us. (Walt Kelly, U.S. animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo, 1913-1973)

ENEMIES : No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. (Daisy Bates, civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer, 1914-1919)

ENEMIES : The enemy of my enemy is my friend. (Arabian proverb)

ENEMIES : None but yourself who are your greatest foe. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)

ENEMIES : Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

ENEMIES : As Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy, and it’s us.” (Unknown source)

ENERGY : The real difference between men is energy. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

ENGLISH (LANGUAGE) : Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. (Mark Abley, Canadian journalist, Born 1955)

ENTHUSIASM : Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Dale Carnegie, U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1995)

ENTHUSIASM : Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. (Ivern Ball, U.S. amateur writer of aphorisms, 1926-1992)

ENTITLEMENT : Many people consider the things government does for them to be Social Progress, but theregard the things government does for others as Socialism. (Earl Warren, U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

ENVIRONMENT : God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)

ENVIRONMENT : Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. (Unknown source)

ENVIRONMENT : When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (Unknown Source)

ENVIRONMENT : If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Unknown Source)

ENVIRONMENT : It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams, U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the western U.S., 1902-1984)

ENVIRONMENT : When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)

ENVIRONMENT : The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

ENVIRONMENT : For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. (Rachel Carson, U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964)

ENVIRONMENT : Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. (Irv Kupciinet, U.S. newspaper columnist and television talk-show host, 1912-2003)

ENVIRONMENT : The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. (Barry Commoner, U.S.cellular biologist, college professor, and politician, 1917-2012)

ENVIRONMENT : Western man has no need of more superiority over nature. . . He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. He does not know that his own soul is rebelling against him in a suicidal way. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)

ENVIRONMENT : When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught, we will discover â€” too late â€” that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you canâ€™t eat money. (Alanis Obomsawin, Canadian filmmaker, Born 1932)

ENVIRONMENT - ENERGY : We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : When we show respect for other living things, they show respect for us. (Arapaho Tribe saying)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. (Joseph Wood Krutch, writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

EQUALITY : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Unknown Source)

EQUALITY : When all Americans are treated as equal, all are free. (Barack Obama, U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

EQUALITY : The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

EQUALITY : The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. (Malcolm De Chazal, Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)

EQUALITY : Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

EQUALITY : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and Civil Rights Activist, 1925-1968)

EQUALITY : No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources. (Marshall Ganz, U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)

EQUALITY : Whatâ€™s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. (U.S. proverb)

EQUALITY - JUSTICE : Equaity delayed is justice denied. (Unknown source)

EQUALITY - JUSTICE : Equaity delayed is justice denied. (Unknown Source)

ERO : I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. (Bob Dylan, U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter [The Times They Are A-Changinï¿½], Born 1941)

ERRORS : To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

ERRORS : People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. (Dale Turner, U.S. singer-songwriter and rock musician, noted for his sophisticated song-craft)

ERRORS : An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. (Caroline L. Gascoigne, 19th-century English poet and novelist, 1813-1883)

ERRORS : The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. (Edward J. Phelps, U.S. lawyer, diplomat, and founder of the American Bar Association, 1822-1900)

ERRORS : The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Georges Bidault, French politician, 1899-1983)

ERRORS : Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963)

ETERNITY : In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. (Robert Green Ingersoll, U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899)

ETHICS : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair, U.S. novelist and reformer, 1878-1968)

ETHICS : There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. (Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, and theologian, 1207-1273)

ETHICS : Morally tainted money is worth less than the value. (Arthur Tasimi)

ETHICS : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair, U.S. reformer, writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1878-1968)

EVANGELISM : I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

EVANGELISM : I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist, 1820-1906Death: As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. (Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and painter, 1898-1936Illusions: The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. (Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet, novelist, and playwright, 1799-1837Memories: Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. (Saul Bellow, Canadian-born U.S. writer, Nobel laureate, 1915-2005)

EVIL : A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

EVIL : The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

EVIL : Evil brings men together. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)

EVIL : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

EVIL : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ( Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

EVIL : Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher, 1821-1881)

EVIL : A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist, 1857-1924Conscience: Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler, English writer, 1835-1902Literacy: We learn to read, so we can read to learn. (Ben Johnson, English playwright, 1572-1637)

EVIL : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. (Unknown Source)

EVIL : There can be no good without evil. (Russian proverb)

EVIL - SHADOW : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

EVIL - SHADOW : Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. In order to cause a shadow— or evil—to disappear, you must shine light on it. (Shakti Gawain, U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

EVIL - SHADOW : Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, by stamping on it. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. (Shakti Gawain, U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

EVOLUTION : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

EVOLUTION : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning-endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

EVOLUTION : Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. (Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, 1900-1975)

EVOLUTION : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

EXCELLENCE UNDER PRESSURE : The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat. (Unknown source)

EXCEPTIONALISM : The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. (Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. author and the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway, 1930-1965)

EXCUSES : An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. (Alexander Pope, English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

EXERCISE : Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. (Robert Hutchins, educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1899-1977)

EXPECTATIONS : Good is not good, where better is expected. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

EXPECTATIONS : Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)

EXPECTATIONS : Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected. (Alice James, U.S. diarist and sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James, 1848-1892)

EXPECTATIONS : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. (Unknown source)

EXPECTATIONS : He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless. (Italian proverb)

EXPECTATIONS : Have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else. (Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

EXPECTATIONS : Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. (The Talmud)

EXPECTATIONS : If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. (Abigail Van Buren, U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the Dear Abby column in 1956 which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

EXPECTATIONS : Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. (O. Henry, U.S. short story writer, 1862-1910)

EXPECTATIONS : When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. (Bill Lemley, U.S. writer, Born 1954)

EXPECTATIONS : Life guarantees a chance---not a fair shake. (Unknown source)

EXPECTATIONS : The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. (Stella Isaacs Charnaud, English philanthropist who founded the Women's Voluntary Service and became the first female member in the House of Lords, 1894-1971)

EXPECTATIONS : The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. (Joyce Brothers, U.S. psychologist and television personality who for 53 years wrote a daily newspaper advice column, 1927-2013)

EXPECTATIONS : The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

EXPECTATIONS : To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (Unknown source)

EXPECTATIONS : Learn to . . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. (Henry Frederic Amiel, Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

EXPECTATIONS : It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. (Charles Dudley Warner, U.S. essayist and novelist, 1820-1900)

EXPECTATIONS : Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

EXPECTATIONS : Better is the enemy of the good. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

EXPECTATIONS : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. (Unknown source)

EXPECTATIONS : The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

EXPECTATIONS : Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Laura Schlessinger, U.S. talk radio host, author, and inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame, Born 1947)

EXPECTATIONS : Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. (Olive Schreiner, South African author, anti-war campaigner, and intellectual, 1856-1920)

EXPECTATIONS : Prospect is often better than possession. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

EXPECTATIONS : Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. (Maurice Setter, English former soccer player and manager, Born 1936)

EXPECTATIONS : My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success. (Ellen Sue Stern, U.S. motivational speaker, best-selling author, and champion of people suffering from chronic illness)

EXPECTATIONS : I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. (Willa Cather, U.S. writer of frontier life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1873-1947)

EXPECTATIONS : The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. (Andre Godin, French industrialist, writer, political theorist, and social innovator, 1817-1888)

EXPECTATIONS : People are lucky and unlucky . . . according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)

EXPENSES : Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Unknown Source)

EXPERIENCE : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. (C.S. Lewis, British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)

EXPERIENCE : Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

EXPERIENCE : To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, and philosopher, 1772-1834)

EXPERIENCE : Experience teaches only the teachable. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. (Minna Antrim, U.S. writer, 1861-1950)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

EXPLETIVES : Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language. (Henry S. Haskins, U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

EXPLORATION : Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

EXPLORATION : One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the home shorefor a very long time. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

EXPLORATION : A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent . . . will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician, 1756-1791)

EXTREMISM : Perfect can be the enemy of good. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

EYE-FOR-AN-EYE : Parties on either side who follow the rule of an ï¿½eye for an eyeï¿½ soon find themselves totally blind. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

EYE-FOR-AN-EYE : Parties on either side who follow the rule of an 'eye for an eye' soon find themselves totally blind. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

EYES : The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. (German proverb)