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- The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
- The Buddha
- There is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance."
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
- People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan
- If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
- Edward Hodnett
- Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
- J. S. Habgood
- I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
- Kahlil Gibron
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981)
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