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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,.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of
bastards.
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of
bastards.
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Honesty is a word
that is hardly ever spoken
Deceit is a word
that makes hearts broken
Love is a read more
Honesty is a word
that is hardly ever spoken
Deceit is a word
that makes hearts broken
Love is a word
spoken many, many times
Hate is a word
that brings out prejudiced crimes
Trying is a word
actions taken that are confusing
Giving-up is a word
not or winning but of losing
Beginning is a word
that means a new start
Forever is a word
that doesn't play its part
Breeze is a word
talking about the wind
Fresh is a word
telling how to begin.
Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The
less he spoke the read more
Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The
less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird.
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had read more
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early
in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards read more
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early
in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually
directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation
strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and
resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.