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The aviation prizes, such as the Orteig Prize, built the aviation industry into what it is today. The competitors for the aviation prizes captured our imagination and instilled a sense of adventure in all of us which allowed aviation to grow as an industry with the support of the public. The X PRIZE, like the Orteig Prize before it, offers the spark needed to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit necessary to build this new industry and make us a true space-faring civilization. – Norman LaFave	added by anonymous 10 years ago
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. – Thomas Merton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps in the forest and waits in the celestial spheres of the brain. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London, Personal Credo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding. – Louis V. Gerstner Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark. – Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream. – John Alan Appleman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by." – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. – Kenny Ausubel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire. – George Gordon Byron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A great flame follows a little spark. – Dante Alighieri	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. – George Washington	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. – Virgil	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this dream a great dream. – John A. Appleman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – A. Whitney Griswold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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