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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.* Warren Buffett I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.* Bob Dylan I got the blues thinking of the future, so I … Continue reading →

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.* Abraham Lincoln Silence is music to a wise man.* Turkish Proverb The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of a dearer stuff than the … Continue reading →

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.* Pema Chodron In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. … Continue reading →

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.* Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion … Continue reading →

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence more than talents and accomplishments.* Edwin Percy Whipple Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.* Martin … Continue reading →

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.* Louise Erdrich Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.* Christina Rossetti When people … Continue reading →

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.* John Weiss Just because a man lacks … Continue reading →

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.* Erich Fromm There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.* Joseph Addison Property may be destroyed and money may lose its … Continue reading →

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.* H. Norman Schwarzkopf Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.* Voltaire The more you speak … Continue reading →

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with … Continue reading →