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The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything
you want.
You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything
you want.
When you seek it, you cannot find it.
When you seek it, you cannot find it.
The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted read more
The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.
Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When
the judgement day comes, God will find six read more
Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When
the judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffin
lid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. Imagine
His surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? She
was dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."
The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song.
"Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,
"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sister
Would. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, with
some shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,
we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold have
no dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, read more
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make read more
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the
scroll. I am the master of my fate. read more
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the
scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.