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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:42:26 GMT 10
How you feel should be secondary to the good you can do
There is, I believe, no such thing as unconditional self-acceptance. Those who say so are promulgating a pernicious lie. One must first live a decent, honor- able and productive life. Only then do you get to feel good about yourself
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward
The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane exper- ience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grate- ful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back laterLaura Schlessinger (Dr Laura)US psychiatrist, radio talk show host (Born this day 1947) When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:43:33 GMT 10
Are people naturally destructive, immoral, predatory and self-seeking, only to be kept in order by harsh laws and fiercely deterrent mandatory sentences? Or are men and women naturally orderly, merciful, humane and bred with a need for justice and mutual aid?
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctor's surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they have something interesting to think about
The "medium is the message" is one of the world's silliest remarks. The message is the message, and it doesn't matter whether you send it by e-mail, a note in a bottle or on a picture postcard. The book, or the poem, or the play is what counts and it doesn't matter if it's written with a pen on a long sheet of ruled paper, as I am writing now, or on the most highly developed word pro- cessor. No machine can help with the rhythms of your prose, even if it can spell better than you can
A "war against terrorism" is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism
Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speechJohn Mortimer, CBE, QCBritish barrister and author ( Rumpole of the Bailey) (Died this day 2009) I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:08:48 GMT 10
Friday’s Quotes: Love that is not madness is not love
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken
What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell
For man's greatest crime is to have been bornPedro Calderón de la BarcaSpanish dramatist and poet ( Life is a Dream) (Born this day 1600) The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:10:05 GMT 10
1 of 2:Love your neighbour, but don't pull down your fence
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Roman Catholic Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works — I mean real good works — not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor SafetyBro. Benjamin Franklin, FRSUS statesman, wit and inventor (Born this day 1706) Lighthouses are more helpful than churches
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:10:59 GMT 10
2 of 2:Energy and persistence conquer all things
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do
Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose itBro. Benjamin Franklin, FRS(Born this day 1706) Half a truth is often a great lie
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:16:46 GMT 10
Say does your heart expand to all mankind and would you ever to your neighbour do, — The weak, the strong, the enlightened and the blind — As you would have your neighbour do to you?
Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honour with hers? Think! it is a serious thing
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe
But there is always a 'but' in this imperfect world
But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose
But all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my ownAnne BrontëBritish author ( Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) (Born this day 1820) All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:18:09 GMT 10
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired
Four spectres haunt the Poor — Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time
Personally I am a sincere advocate of all means which would lead to the settlement of international disputes by methods such as those which civilization has so successfully set up for the adjustment of differences between individualsDavid Lloyd George, OM PCUK Prime Minister (Liberal, 1916–1922) (Born this day 1863) Liberty has restraints but no frontiers
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:23:59 GMT 10
I have built my organization upon fear
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in ... We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great oppor- tunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling classAl Capone, American entrepreneur (Born this day 1899) I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:25:33 GMT 10
I don't think that I had the slightest interest in a career or any adult life; I was born to one end, which was to go into the army and do the best I could before being killed
Without work men are utterly undone
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today
The thing most worth doing in this modern world — create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work
Maybe we’ve been too silly to deserve a world like this
It’s not the end of the world at all,’ he said. ‘It’s only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan’t be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those thingsNevil Shute (N.S. Norway)English-born Australian novelist ( A Town Like Alice & On the Beach) (Born this day 1899) It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:26:27 GMT 10
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one
The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching — without these a university cannot exist
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a foolRobert Maynard HutchinsUS educator and civil libertarian (Born this day 1899) Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes
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