Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.
Jump, then grow wings on the way down.
There's no way you can look into the game of _x000D_ life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether _x000D_ it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!
Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
Pop art is a way of liking things.
I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.
Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.
America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.
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