All quotes — page 129

• Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders - presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought t…

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• In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centur…

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• Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

  Kate Sheppard

• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

  Alan Dundes

• Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

  Carleton Young

• Think big. Start small.

  Seth Godin

• Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.

  Katie Tomlin

• The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momenta…

  Alberto Giacometti

• You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

  Mackenzie Phillips

• Politics And Religion Are Obsolete, The Time Has Come For Science And Spirituality.

  Viveka Bhare

• The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.

  Joseph Needham

• Beginning of a great day begins a night before Sukant Ratnakar

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• The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in. St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." T…

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• The Lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.

  Game of Thrones

• Everything you want is on the other side of fear" - Jack Canfield.

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• The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to…

  Anthony Stafford Beer

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

• Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

  Angela Ahrendts

• Sometimes the hardest things are the ones most worth doing.

  Jennifer E. Smith

• I have gone to the forest.

  Knut Hamsun

• Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

• I don't care what people say about me.

  Roger Daltry

• In my soul, I am free.

  Paul Twitchell

• Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data struc…

  Linus Pauling

• Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the sam…

  Charles Krauthammer

• Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I…

  Leo Alden

• Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even th…

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• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  Abraham Lincoln

• To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

  John James Audubon

• Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.

  Ryan Kahn

• If you can't do it with feeling, don't.

  Patsy Cline

• Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice.

  HeatherAsh Amara

• I love my brother. I miss my brother.

  Randy Quaid

• Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

• In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

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• You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last…

  Joshua Tropper

• To whom much has been given, much is required.

  Michael Eric Dyson

• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. What scares you is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

  Guillermo Musso

• Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

  Anne Frank

• You're the author of your own life story.

  Elizabeth Acevedo

• The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

  Richard Powers

• I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

  David Ortiz

• What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an…

  Anne Duke

• A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

  Susanna Clarke

• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

• Move well, study well, play well, eat well, rest well –

  That is the turtle master way!

• Keep the Promises You Make to Yourself.

  Sarah Jakes Roberts

• Honor may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

  Ishida Mitsunari

• Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

  C. Wagner