The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
Rosamond Lehman
The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.
The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.
Source Unknown
Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.
The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face
There are no traffic jams in the second mile.
The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.
Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today?
I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.
There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.
Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try
Failure is the path of least persistence
From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.
A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.
If you've never failed you've never tried.
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