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- A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
- Taeke de Jong, Ways to Study and Research
- Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously.
- Brooks Clark
- I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987
- If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.
- Cicely Tyson
- Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.
- Tupac Shakur, Ghetto Gospel
- The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
- James Geary, The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
- A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
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