Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
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Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it.
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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