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Love of Power
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix
Attitude
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. -Winston Churchill
Courage
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. -Chester W. Nimitz
Knowledge
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. -Albert Einstein
Fathers
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. -Frank A. Clark
Being Content
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Love
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -Dalai Lama
Prayer
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -Mahatma Gandhi
True Happiness
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris
Humanity
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. -Albert Einstein
Dreams
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. -Colin Powell
Education
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes
Regret
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. -Lucille Ball
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates
Fear
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson
Free Lunch
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also ...
Worse than War
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. -- John Stuart Mill
Modern Crony Capitalism
I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. ...
Ethics and Economics
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Scarcity
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. -- Thomas Sowell
Greatness
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Beware Dreamers
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -- ...
Quarrelsome Men
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. -- Thomas Jefferson
On Lowering Taxes
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. -- Andrew Jackson
Sunday School
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure ...