Duane Chattin:  

CLASS OF 1971
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Lincoln High SchoolClass of 1971
Vincennes, IN

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Duane is from Vincennes, Indiana. Duane's schools include Lincoln High School. Duane later attended Indiana University (Journalism and Political Science) , Vincennes University. Duane works(ed) at Vincennes University, Vincennes University, Vincennes University. Music Duane likes includes Three Legged Dog, Neil Young, Dicky James & the Blue Flames. Movies Duane likes include Take a Ride with the Indiana Live Steamers | Indianapolis Star. TV shows Duane likes include The Rachel Maddow Show, The Colbert Report, History. One of Duane's favorite quotes is:"“And he believes that when you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that door of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you, you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.” --Michelle Obama, Sept. 4, 2012 "No one has the right to feel hopeless, there's too much work to do."--Dorothy Day "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."--Justice Louis D. Brandeis "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." — Winston Churchill “The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."--Harry Truman "All education "worthy" of the name is education of character."--Martin Buber "It never gets easier, you just get stronger."-- Byron Pitts "Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward."--JOB 5:7 "A man that has friends Is never alone."--T. LaFountain "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” --Robert F. Kennedy "We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something." -- Sandra Day O'Connor "It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." --Arnold J. Toynbee "Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice." --Arnold J. Toynbee "Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet." --Arnold J. Toynbee "The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice." --Arnold J. Toynbee "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."--Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 "Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs "The future is not a gift. It is an achievement." --Robert F. Kennedy "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." --- Daniel Patrick Moynihan There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. --Anonymous "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."--John Gardner "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason not to fight" - Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."--Daniel Patrick Moynihan "Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone." — John Quincy Adams “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” -- Albert Schweitzer "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -- Mark Twain. "There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility."--John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 1963 (speech never delivered) "The time has come for the sons and daughters of Lincoln and the heirs of Jefferson and Jackson to no longer wage war upon each other but to instead renew the struggle against the ancient enemies of man: ignorance, poverty and disease. That is why we are here." --Evan Bayh "I, ...Expand for more
not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." --Groucho Marx "Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home." -- Harold E. Stassen "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."---Charles Darwin "A different world cannot be built by indifferent people." -- Rev. Peter Marshall (Chaplain of the US Senate 1947-1949) "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."-- Alexander Hamilton "You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest."--Robert Brault "I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." --George Washington "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."--Martin Luther King, Jr. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."--Barack Obama "Most people fail to recognize opportunity because it shows up wearing overalls and looking a lot like work." --Mark Twain "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."--Barack Obama "The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." -- Howard Zinn "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." --Mary Pickford "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." --Albert Szent-Gyorgi "Know that when you are through learning, you are through." -- John Wooden "Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."--anonymous "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans" ---John Lennon "Our oil addiction has led us to environmental destruction, endless wars, and the sacrifice of young lives, and it has put our very souls in jeopardy."--Jim Wallis "Be grateful for each new day. A new day that you have never lived before. Twenty-four new, fresh, unexplored hours to use usefully and profitably. We can squander, neglect or use it. Life will be richer or poorer by the way we use today." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little." --Edmund Burke "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers." --Daniel J. Boorstin “The opposite of love isn’t hate, the opposite of love is indifference.” --Elie Weisel "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." --Alexis de Tocqueville "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." --Friedrich Nietzsche "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."--Maya Angelou "The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out; and it is important to maintain a balanced life." -- Warren Wiersbe "Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." -- Wendell Berry "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." -- Wendell Berry "The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." -- Robert M. Hutchins ""You must be the change you wish to see in the world"- M. Gandhi "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brillant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you." --Marianne Williamson "Politics are like a car. When you want to go forward you put it in D and when you want to go backward you put it in R." - Hilliary Clinton "The problem is not that Christianity can't be believed, but that it can't be practiced because of its lack of lived experience. And it can't be observed by others because there are too few Christians who are radical enough to manifest what the gospel really looks like" --Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." Thomas Jefferson". More about Duane:"2010-11 Governor of Civitan International's North Central District (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa)".
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