daily quote

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
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What's the mark of the "wise yet uneducated" mind? I heard that expression the other day, but can't remember where. Sounds like someone who would write emails with the CAPS lock on and send them to everyone in his address book.

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I am beginning to believe it." - Clarence Darrow

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles Kettering
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"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' " - Brian Tracy

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot

"Early bird may get worm, but second mouse get cheese" - Confuse-us

"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about." - Albert Einstein
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"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

Albert Einstein

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William A. Ward

"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours." - Ray Kroc

"The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many." - John Naisbitt

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan." - Abraham Lincoln

[h=5]“The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence… the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason.”

― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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"Don't look where you fell, look where you slipped." - African Proverb

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair

"Waiter, I'll have a turtle sandwich and make it snappy" - ???

"I will prove by my life that my critics are liars." - Plato

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil." - Dale Carnegie

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight Eisenhower