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The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be read more
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will read more
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers read more
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good read more
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong read more
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
