1. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is often dressed in overalls and looks like work.”—Thomas Edison, inventor
2. “The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only a page.” —St. Augustine, cleric
3. “It is never too late to be what one might have been.”—George Eliot (Mary Anti Evans), writer
4. “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”—Heywood Hale Broun, sportscaster
5. “Noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”—Martin Luther King, jr., states-man and civil-rights activist 6. “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hid-den truth.”—George Bernard Shaw, writer
7. “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”—Stephen Leacock, economist and humorist
8. “It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”—Henry Thoreau, writer and naturalist
9. “When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.”—African proverb
10. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow” –Alice Walker, writer
11. “Education is the most powerful weapon. You can use it to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa continued on next page
Jackie Robinson, who with exemplary courage ended segregation of American pro-baseball, steals home plate during the 1955 World Series.
12. ” The journey is the reward.”—Taoist proverb
13. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of convey.- sation.”—Plato, philosopher 14. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt, stateswoman
15. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”—Margaret Mead, anthropologist
16. “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”—Cltinese proven)
17. “I took the [road’ less trawled by, and that has made all the difference.”—from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, poet (♦ For the complete poem, see page 516.)
For this assignment, you will compose an essay using one of the quotes
