Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
Practice only makes for improvement.
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
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Brian W. Aldiss, "in The Guardia
Education
John Holt
The whole recorded history of man is strewn with the wreckage of the great civilizations which have crumbled under price controls; and in forty centuries of human experience, there has never been
Irving S. Olds
But how is...legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals.
Fr
A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial and other influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness for new truth.
Albert Schweitzer
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.
Lin Yutang
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer, Principles of B
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.
John Dickinson
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.
Irving Kristol
I was born upon thy bank, river,My blood flows in thy stream,And thou meanderest foreverAt the bottom of my dream.
Henry David Thoreau, Journals, 1
No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
African Proverb
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
American Indian Proverb
Through this broad street, restless ever, Ebbs and flows a human tide,Wave on wave a living river;Wealth and fashion side by side;Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
John Greenleaf Whittier, At Wash
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle, Help, Help! Another D
When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.
Harold Coffin, "The San Francisc
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Harold Coffin
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something - and the switchboard operator knows everything.
Harold Coffin, quoted in The Pet
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
H. L. Mencken
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.
James Madison
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.
In some countries a power exists which, though it is in a degree foreign to the social body, directs it, and forces it to pursue a certain track. In others the ruling force is divided, being partly within and partly without the ranks of the people. But nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States; there society governs itself for itself. All power centers in its bosom, and scarcely an individual is to be met with who would venture to conceive or, still less, to express the idea of seeking it elsewhere. The nation participates in the making of its laws by the choice of its legislators, and in the execution of them by the choice of the agents of the executive government; it may almost be said to govern itself, so feeble and so restricted is the share left to the administration, so little . do the authorities forget their popular origin and the power from which they emanate. The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy
There are two things that a democratic people will always find very difficult, to begin a war and to end it.
A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
Virgil, Aeneid
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
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