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Try Again
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your ...
For Truth
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. -- Malcolm X
Love the Earth
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence ...
What You Don't Know
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Halloween Scare
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me! -- Rodney Dangerfield
Lesser of Two Evils
In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more ...
Anald
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. -- Conan O'Brien
Keep the Change
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. -- Herman Cain
Striving
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. -- Arthur Ashe
The Trouble with People
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. -- Will Durant
Because it is Good
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something ...
Maintaining Hope
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. -- Seamus Heaney
Taking It
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hopelessness
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. -- Vaclav Havel
Spoiling the Present
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. -- Epicurus
More Luck
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. -- Ed Bradley
Worst Evil
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Powerful
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. -- Phaedrus
Over Time
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. -- Sophie Swetchine
What Power Is
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. -- Michel Foucault
Timing
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
Rising High
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. -- Alexis Carrel
Kings
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? -- Christopher Marlowe
Bound by Nature
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. -- Alice Hoffman
Scratching and Clawing
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and ...