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“You walk the way for yourself, only for yourself.”
The Way. 2010 Movie. 19m25s.
Captain Henri
“Knowledge is power.”
Francis Bacon
“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
Joseph Stalin
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
Bruce Lee
“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.”
Bill Watterson
“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
George Bernard Shaw
“My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
C. S. Lewis
“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
Creativity and the writing process (1982) by ...
Charles Mingus
“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of circumstances having power over you.”
Joyce Meyer
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston Churchill
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
Peter Drucker
“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
Aristotle
“I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.”
Lev Grossman
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
Douglas Adams
“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
Niels Bohr
“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
Sun Tzu
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde