There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
CHARLES BABBAGEPower is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
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Two things that define SUCCESS In LIFE: – The Way You manage when you have nothing & way you behave when you have everything.
AKON -
Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.
TONY ROBBINS -
The excitement of being on stage never goes away.
DOLLY PARTON -
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.
BOB JONES, SR. -
War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
MARIE KONDO -
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
I will continue doing things irrespective of the medium as long as I’m excited about it.
SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT -
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER -
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
ALAN LIGHTMAN