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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. -Marcus AureliusFor a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. -Publilius SyrusDon't be deceived by the same thing over and over. Try something new for a change.--Darren MylesYouth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. -AristotleStrength is a matter of the made-up mind. -John BeecherOrganized willpower is the combustion that forces the engine of progress forward. A committee of one gets things done. -Joe RyanStrength is a matter of the made-up mind. -John BeecherWe'll jump off that bridge when we come to it. -Lester B. PearsonOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. -Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. -Publius SyrusNever be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Acceptno one's definition of your life; define yourself. -Harvey FiersteinThe one who wills is the one who can. -ProverbWe are all pivot points in history. If you think about the vastness of the future stretching out ahead of us, each and every one of us, in what we do or fail todo, affects the weave of what's to be. We are all living, breathing points of d

eparture between history as it will be, and alternate histories that could be.-Jay SoloWho benefits? -Ciciero

I count this thing to be grandly true,That a noble deed is a step toward God;Lifting the soul from the common clodTo a purer air and a broader view. -Richard Watson GilderWith the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance. -Norman MailerAristotle drops an object into the ocean of its class, then takes it out all dripping with generic meaning with the marks of its kind and group, while its individuality and difference shine out all the more clearly for this juxtaposition with other objects which resemble it so much and are so different. -Will DurantWhen there is a diffusion of responsibility the impetus to act just isn't there.If you want answers or if you want somebody to do something, you have to increa

se his responsibility. This is best accomplished by appealing to one person at a

time. -David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while theydo it. -Theodore RosseveltAristocracy and monarchy are more efficient than democracy but they're also moredangerous. -John Dewey

Democretus (Aristotle's predecessor) had a nose for facts, rather than an eye for the clouds. -Francis BaconWe are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone. We should therefore act as if we were alone, and in that case should we build fine houses, etc. Weshould seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that wevalue the esteem of men more than the search for truth. -Blaise Paschal

Depression is the inability to construct a future. -Rollo MayUnsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. -C.S. Lewis

We should desire nothing for ourselves which we do not desire for the rest of mankind. -SpinozaThought should not lack the heat of desire, nor desire the light of thought. -SpinozaThe will to know builds the brain just as the will to grasp forms the hand or asthe will to eat develops the digestive track. -Shopenheimer

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re, who already possess it. -La RochefoucauldIf you don't have any desires then you have stopped living. -Tonja MylesMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. -Jeande la Fontaine

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the firststep into a thousand years of darkness. -Ronald Reagan

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto, but to minister to ourselves andto our fellow-men. -Franklin D. RooseveltI don't know what your destiny will be, but one think I do know--the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -Albert SwitzerMy observation is that frequently the most insignificant matter is the foundation for the worst scandal. - Abraham LincolnHe who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannotexist but in minutely organized particulars. -William Blake

Small changes have big results. -Issac AsimovEveryone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is madeup of little things. -Frank A. ClarkAs the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found inlittle every day penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much g

oodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown . . . -G. C. Lichtenberg

It's the little things in life that determine the big things. -UnknownA battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. -Napolean BonaparteIt's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. -John WoodenThe least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affectedby a pebble. -Blaise PascalAffairs of war, like the destiny of battles as well as of Empires, hang upon a spider's thread. -NapoleonMost men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. -Orison SwettMarden

The determination to strive to do our best will inevitably improve the quality o

f our lives. -Tom LandryAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln