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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
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.
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do,
learn from the doing, then teach read more
When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do,
learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of read more
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them
as probabilities.
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
