I just received my holiday issue of OUR IOWA magazine, with it was a 2015 Iowa calendar, depicting an Iowa scene for each month.

Each month is accompanied by a noteworthy quote by known Iowan. I am including six of the twelve:

"Fishing is more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

~ Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President, from West Branch

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"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed throughout it."

~ George Washington Carver, studied at both Iowa State University and Simpson College

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"The time I think I'm too good to listen to someone' opinion, I really need to sit down and evaluate things."

~ Lisa Bluder, University of Iowa women's basketball coach from Cedar Rapids

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"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is:  Are you ready?"

~ Johnny Carson, born in Corning

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"I believe that in the world we have to be committed people---we are the hands and feet of God."

~ Former Governor and U.S. Senator Harold Hughes from Ida Grove

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"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."

~ Pastor and televangelist Robert Schuller from Alton

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