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As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is
one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is
the thing left to us in a bad time.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis
to a judicious use of sabotage.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
It is incumbent on every man who reverences the
character of the Creator, and who wishes to lessen the catalogue of artificial miseries,
and remove the cause that has sown persecutions thick among mankind, to expel all ideas of
revealed religion, as a dangerous heresy and an impious fraud.
- Thomas Paine, British born American patriot
Water which is too pure has no fish.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given
talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to
accomplish his goals.
Everything considered, work is less boring than
amusing oneself.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives
it a superficial appearance of being right.
People like you and I, though mortal of course
like every- one else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to
stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
- Albert Einstein (letter to Otto Juliusburger)
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One
must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest
efforts.
- Albert Einstein, 1915 letter to a student
Allow yourself to be inspired. Allow yourself to succeed.
Dare to excel.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile;
virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside
from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
The Universe is full of magical things, patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
If it's natural to kill why do men have to go into
training to learn how?
When you come to the edge of all the light you
know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of
two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught
how to fly.
Science has brought forth this danger, but the
real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will change hearts of other men [only]
by changing our own hearts and speaking bravely.
Fashions fade style is eternal.
You can muffle the drum, and you
can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
The greatest triumphs of
propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Correct handling of flowers
refines the personality.
A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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