Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

We teach that every priest shall extinguish heathendom, and forbid wilweorthunga (fountain worship), and licwiglunga (incantations of the dead), and hwata (omens), and galdra (magic), and man worship, and the abominations that men exercise in various sorts of witchcraft, and in frithspottum (peace-enclosures) with elms and other trees, and with stones, and with many phantoms.The Church's transformation of...women into the modern concept witch... http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Witch

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There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for.

Steve Maraboli

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Sir Winston Churchill

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love- You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

C.S. Lewis

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Ivan Pavlov

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Jeremy Renner

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson