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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
No man is free who is not a master of himself.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted read more
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The read more
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
