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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the read more
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood read more
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves read more
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to read more
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than read more
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
