Month: Apr 2012
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Cicero: Decisions, decisions, decisions
“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.” —Cicero
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Kurt Vonnegut: Voce populi
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say. ” —Kurt Vonnegut.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: It worked
“It worked,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the first atomic detonation.
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Byron Pulsifer: Be brilliant and thoughtful
If you cannot be silent be brilliant and thoughtful. —Byron Pulsifer.
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George Bancroft: No authority
“Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. ” —George Bancroft
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Jesse Jackson: Tears and sweat
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. ” —Jesse Jackson.
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William Penn: Patience and diligence
“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ”—William Penn.
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Think no evil….
“Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. ” —Logan Pearsall Smith
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Philip Emeagwali: Interest
“I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me. ” —Philip Emeagwali.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas: Penance
“Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. ” —Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Steve Jobs: Secondary
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you…
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Rene Descartes: Candles in the wind
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ” —Rene Descartes. Related articles Rene Descartes on the Dependency of Man and the Independency of God (jdylanparker.wordpress.com) Descartes Knew More Than He Thought (wmbriggs.com) Descartes Got It Wrong (intermittentlyknownlife.wordpress.com)
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Albert Einstein: Fish climbing trees
“Everyone is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” —Albert Einstein.
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Oscar Wilde: Saints and sinners
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” —Oscar Wilde.
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William Arthur Ward: Encouragement
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.” —William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994).
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Margaret J. Wheatley: Magnetic
“Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. ” —Margaret J. Wheatley.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Belief and unbelief
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Albert Einstein: Simplest way
“God always takes the simplest way.” —Albert Einstein. Related articles Albert Einstein famously said that “politics is more difficult than physics.” …Union of Concerned Scientists (ynative77.wordpress.com) Albert Einstein’s 10 Biggest Scientific Mistakes [Daily 10] (io9.com) Einstein (therightglass.wordpress.com) Einstein And The Mind of God (panokroko.wordpress.com) Einstein on radio (johndcook.com)
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Reasoning it out…
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: How and why
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some,…
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Symptom rather than cause
Too often, look and feel, color scheme, layout, and identity are presented as solutions to problems discussed in these conversations long before regard is given to other less-aesthetic issues that may very well be the root of the problem. The old warning against treating symptom rather than cause comes to mind. – Cameron Moll
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The Wolf and the Lamb
A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice,…
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Bill Rodgers: Running
“Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It’s the easiest sport.” ~Bill Rodgers.
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Race horses and women
“Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ” —Lord Kelvin
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Saint Augustine: Wiser than Cicero and Plato
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” ” —Saint Augustine.
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Susan Sontag : Thoughts and feelings
“One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feelings… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with…
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Henry Thoreau: Speak with kindness
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” —Henry Thoreau.
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George Bernard Shaw: Mistakes
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ” —George Bernard Shaw.
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I'm the one
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” -Jimi Hendrix
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Oscar Wilde: Reproduce that experience
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Obedience
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. ” —Thomas Carlyle Related articles How to be obedient… (jesusfreaknow.com) Obedience is the Price (missiontough.com) poverty, chastity, and obedience (makeafriar.com) Obedience cannot be translate as tameness (profish3.wordpress.com) Obedience cannot be translate as tameness (profish3.wordpress.com) When…
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Compromise
“Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. ” —Lord Edward Cecil Related articles Of compromise and friendship (unordinaire.wordpress.com) Selfless Compromises For The Team (meetjohnsong.com) Offer in Compromise (OIC) – Not Always the First Option (oweirsneedtaxdebthelp.wordpress.com)
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St. Paul: Love
“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” —Bible,…
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Concentration
“Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ” —Andrew Carnegie
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux: Kindness
“In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.” —Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763).
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Josh Billings: Ambition
“Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.” —Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885).
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Being funny
“If you can be funny, it means you’re intelligent. Your brain is working fast. ” —Amber Valletta
