Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Create Personalise WishesGive me six hours to chop…
I desire so to conduct…
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
23What is conservativism?…
What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
16The strongest bond of…
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
16Character is like a tree…
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
17The dogmas of the quiet…
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
17Always bear in mind that your own resolution…
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
26And in the end, it’s not the years in your life…
Writing is the only thing…
Power can be taken, but…
If women are supposed…
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
32Law and justice are not…
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
15This is no simple reform….
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
15Without leaps of imagination,…
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
14The first problem for…
There are two means of…
Constant kindness can…
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
10I don’t know what your…
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
14Success is not the key…
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
24To educate yourself for…
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
11At times our own light…
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.