The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how
valuable we are.
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how
valuable we are.
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve read more
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions
between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and
matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long
forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is
nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of
every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals
that do not inspire them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals
that do not inspire them.
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with
purpose, is to enter the ranks of those read more
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with
purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize
failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions
serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish
masterfully.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?.
It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?.
