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Peace and Destructions
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future ...
Qualifications
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. -- Mario Puzo, The Godfather
My Doing
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. -- Ray Charles
Happiness
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -- Aristotle
Becoming Great
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain
2 Senators
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. -- Jay Leno
Not Like Him
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Success
When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forgets who you are. It's life. -- Bill Gates
Engaging People
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. - ...
Thinking
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right. ― Henry Ford
Courage Is...
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. -- David Ben-Gurion
A Game
The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. --Junior Seau
Net Wars
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. Neal Stephenson
Mirrors
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. -- Jimi Hendrix
Media Competition
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. -- Walter Cronkite
Leading from the Front
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. -- Nelson Mandela
Climate Change
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list. -- P. J. O'Rourke
Over-Involved Parenting
When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over-involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs. -- Frank Shorter
2nd Place
Second place is just the first place loser. -- Dale Earnhardt
Accomplish Something
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. -- Dale Carnegie
The Wise
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. -- Orson Scott Card
Blending In
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. -- John Locke
Think, or Else
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Finding the Past
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking Fast
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice. -- Bill Watterson