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    <author-first-name>Eleanor</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Roosevelt</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>U.S. First Lady, diplomat, human rights activist</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3983</id>
    <position type="integer">1047</position>
    <quote>Yesterday is history.

Tomorrow is a mystery.

Today is a gift.</quote>
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    <year-born type="integer">1884</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1962</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Abraham</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Maslow</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>psychologist</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3795</id>
    <position type="integer">377</position>
    <quote>The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.</quote>
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    <year-born type="integer">1908</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1970</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Theodor "Dr. Seuss"</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Geisel</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>writer, cartoonist</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3504</id>
    <position type="integer">1104</position>
    <quote>Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-12-11T16:11:30-07:00</updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1904</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1991</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Gene</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Bedley</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>National Educator of the Year</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3106</id>
    <position type="integer">1289</position>
    <quote>You bring out the best in yourself by looking for the best in others.</quote>
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    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Richard David</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Bach</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>writer</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3072</id>
    <position type="integer">386</position>
    <quote>The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1936</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Anne</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Bradstreet</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>writer, poet, first woman to be published in Colonial America</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3144</id>
    <position type="integer">1352</position>
    <quote>If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1612</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1672</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Unknown</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name></author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data></author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">4269</id>
    <position type="integer">1262</position>
    <quote>Today is a gift.  That's why it's called the present.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
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    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Socrates</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name></author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data> Greek philosopher</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime">2009-11-26T09:31:49-07:00</created-at>
    <id type="integer">4613</id>
    <position type="integer">1515</position>
    <quote>He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.</quote>
    <tag nil="true"></tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-12-11T16:25:52-07:00</updated-at>
    <value nil="true"></value>
    <year-born type="integer">469</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">399</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Oprah</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Winfrey</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>American television host, publisher</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">4242</id>
    <position type="integer">383</position>
    <quote>Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1954</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>James M.</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Barrie</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>novelist, dramatist</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3092</id>
    <position type="integer">1086</position>
    <quote>God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1860</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1937</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Margaret </author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Cousins</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data></author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3254</id>
    <position type="integer">12</position>
    <quote>Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
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    <year-born type="integer" nil="true"></year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Tenzin</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Gyatso</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>The 14th Dalai Lama (b. 1935)</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3542</id>
    <position type="integer">16</position>
    <quote>The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1935</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Elbert</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Hubbard</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>philosopher, author, publisher</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3592</id>
    <position type="integer">28</position>
    <quote>I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1856</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1915</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Thornton</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Wilder</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>novelist, playwright</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">4224</id>
    <position type="integer">385</position>
    <quote>We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1897</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1975</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Kaitlyn</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Cox</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data></author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3264</id>
    <position type="integer">1397</position>
    <quote>To me, sadness is great! Without it we could not appriciate true happiness.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1994</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Theodore</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Roosevelt</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>26th U.S. President</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3982</id>
    <position type="integer">1</position>
    <quote>Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1858</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1919</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>William Arthur</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Ward</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>author, educator, motivational speaker</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">4461</id>
    <position type="integer">0</position>
    <quote>God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say 'thank you?'</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1921</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1994</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Henry Wadsworth</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Longfellow</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>poet</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3755</id>
    <position type="integer">643</position>
    <quote>Age is opportunity no less

Than youth itself, though in another dress,

And as the evening twilight fades away

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1807</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1882</year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Unknown</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name></author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data></author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">4270</id>
    <position type="integer">1330</position>
    <quote>It's a poor frog who doesn't praise its own pond.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer" nil="true"></year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>Ralph</author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Marston</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data></author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3792</id>
    <position type="integer">369</position>
    <quote>What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.</quote>
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    <year-born type="integer" nil="true"></year-born>
    <year-died type="integer" nil="true"></year-died>
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  <quote>
    <approved type="integer">1</approved>
    <author-first-name>G. K. </author-first-name>
    <author-last-name>Chesterton</author-last-name>
    <author-meta-data>writer, poet, essayist, novelist</author-meta-data>
    <created-at type="datetime" nil="true"></created-at>
    <id type="integer">3212</id>
    <position type="integer">30</position>
    <quote>The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.</quote>
    <tag>appreciation</tag>
    <updated-at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated-at>
    <value>appreciation</value>
    <year-born type="integer">1874</year-born>
    <year-died type="integer">1936</year-died>
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