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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business
mistake if I don't.
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business
mistake if I don't.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad
training.
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad
training.
The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works read more
The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices
about results you want to create. When read more
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices
about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize
vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too
often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their
choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems
possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,
and all that is left is a compromise.
The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let
us down is because we believe read more
The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let
us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well,
sorry, that's not life here on earth.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as read more
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
