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- He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
- Albert Pike
- It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
- Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
- It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
- One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
- War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
- Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
- Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
- The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
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