[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. CHESTERTONHave Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, – No night but hath its morn.
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I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
STEVE JOBS -
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARX -
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
STEPHEN KING -
If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I’m beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!
DEMI LOVATO -
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY -
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Women. They are a complete mystery.
STEPHEN HAWKING -
At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIć -
A trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.
AJAHN AMARO -
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
VIKTOR FRANKL -
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
GRIMES -
Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
MARIE CURIE -
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.
BARBARA EHRENREICH