Quotes

Our hopes for the world →

Published Apr 26, 2013  ·  All posts on Apr 26  ·  

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No person, no home, no community can be beyond the reach of this call. We are summoned to act in wisdom and in conscience, to work with industry, to teach with persuasion, to preach with conviction, to weigh our every deed with care and with compassion. For this truth must be clear before us: whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

The peace we seek, then, is nothing less than the practice and fulfillment of our whole faith among ourselves and in our dealings with others. This signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

This is the hope that beckons us onward in this century of trial. This is the work that awaits us all, to be done with bravery, with charity, and with prayer to Almighty God.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Be so good →

Published Apr 24, 2013  ·  All posts on Apr 24  ·  ,

Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear. What they want to hear is, “Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script,” … but I always say, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.'”

~ Steve Martin

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That’s Nuts →

Published Apr 18, 2013  ·  All posts on Apr 18  ·  

Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.

~ Thelonious Monk

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Impossible? →

Published Apr 2, 2013  ·  All posts on Apr 2  ·  

Nothing is impossible. You just have to want it more.

~ unknown

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Nevermind →

Published Mar 20, 2013  ·  All posts on Mar 20  ·  

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

~ Harry S. Truman

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Science, yes. Politics or Religion, nope. →

Published Mar 2, 2013  ·  All posts on Mar 2  ·  

In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

~ Carl Sagan

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Willpower →

Published Feb 21, 2013  ·  All posts on Feb 21  ·  

Self-possession implies the capacity for self-restraint, self-compulsion and self-direction; and he who has these, if he live long enough, can have any other possession that he wants.

~ William Hanna Thompson

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What shall we do with Mars? →

Published Sep 30, 2012  ·  All posts on Sep 30  ·  

The surface area of Mars is exactly as large as the land area of the Earth. A thorough reconnaissance will clearly occupy us for centuries. But there will be a time when Mars is all explored; a time after robot aircraft have mapped it from aloft, a time after rovers have combed the surface, a time after samples have been returned safely to Earth, a time after human beings have walked the sands of Mars. What then? What shall we do with Mars?

~ Carl Sagan

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You must do the thing you think you cannot →

Published Aug 5, 2012  ·  All posts on Aug 5  ·  

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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