Social Media and Haiti

Great thoughts about the power of media communications technologies.

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

Horace Mann

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"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."

Bette Davis

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"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

Samuel Goldwyn

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"Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore."

Alan Moore

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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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"There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

Michael J. Fox

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"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said."

Vaclav Havel

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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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"Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue."

Scott Adams

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"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

Henri Bergson

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"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

Dinah Shore

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"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery."

Lawana Blackwell

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"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."

Spanish Proverb

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"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

Max L. Forman

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"Strangers are made, not found."

- Luke Renner

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"The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution."

- David Cronenberg

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"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."

- Shakti Gawain

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"If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite."

- Liz Friedman

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move."

- Barbara Hall

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"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."

- Dr. David M. Burns

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"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

- Albert Camus

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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

- Aristotle

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"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

- Edward Everett

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"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

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"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."

- Irving Berlin

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"Every society must be intentional about educating it's leaders."

- Patrick Awuah

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"When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

- Eli Renner