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You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for read more
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you read more
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
