Interesting Quotes
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- Unknown
- Bible
- Dale Carnegie
- Nikola Tesla
- Herbert Hoover
- James Baldwin
- Maya Angelou
- Teilhard de Chardin
- Terêncio
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lao Tzu
- Sun Tzu
- Oliver Wilkins
- George Orwell
- Ragnar Lothbrok
- Yogg Saron
- Andrew Smith
- Cody Canteberry
- G Michael Hopf
- Gen. Douglas Mcarthur
- TE Lawrence
- Jim Rohn
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Roberto Shinyashiki
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Henry David Thoreau
- John Burroughs
- Confucius
- St. Jerome
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Seneca the Younger
- Vladimir Lenin
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Angela Davis
- Fulton J. Sheen
- Paulo Freire
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Terence McKenna
- Epictetus
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jack Canfield
- Elbert Hubbard
- Oprah Winfrey
- Dr. Gabor Maté
- Gabi Cirlig
- Charles Bukowski
- Einstein
- John Philpot Curran
- George Whitefield
- Thomas Paine
- Josemar Bessa
- Julio Lobo
- Daniel Fraga
- African Proverbs
- Jewish knowledge
- Balthasar Gracian
- Ayn Rand
Phrases which I see as worthy to reflect, mainly for personal reference.
Doesn't necessarily reflects my personal views but worthy for aweareness.
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Unknown
Bible
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knows not that the Repha'iym are there; and that her guests are in the depths of She'ol.
You say you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Good for you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror.
That the things which the pagans sacrifice are to devils, and not to Elohiym: and I don't want you to become sharers of the demons!
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shall you divide for an inheritance the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give them.
Dale Carnegie
Nikola Tesla
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All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed. Only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
The hard work of the future will be pushing buttons.
Of all things I liked books the best.
Herbert Hoover
James Baldwin
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Maya Angelou
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money yWour goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.
Teilhard de Chardin
Terêncio
Leonardo da Vinci
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Quem não estima a vida não a merece.
O olhar de quem odeia é mais penetrante do que o olhar de quem ama.
Repreenda o amigo em segredo e elogia-o em público.
Nada nos engana tanto como a nossa própria opinião.
Não se pode ter maior domínio do que o exercício sobre si mesmo.
Todo nosso conhecimento tem princípio nos sentimentos.
Se compreenderes que a velhice tem por sustento a sabedoria, hás de esforçar-te durante a mocidade para que, nos derradeiros anos, não te falte alimento.
Pobre do discípulo que não deixa seu mestre para trás.
A paciência serve de proteção contra injustiças como as roupas contra o frio. Se você veste mais roupas com o aumento do frio, este não terá nenhum poder para feri-lo. De forma idêntica você deve crescer em paciência quando se encontra em grandes dificuldades e elas serão impotentes para atormentar a sua mente.
As mais lindas palavras de amor são ditas no silêncio de um olhar.
Do mesmo modo que o metal enferruja com a ociosidade e a água parada perde sua pureza, assim a inércia esgota a energia da mente.
Passados quarenta anos, um homem é responsável por seus próprios sonhos.
Uma vez que você tenha experimentado voar, você andará pela terra com seus olhos voltados para céu, pois lá você esteve e para lá você desejará voltar.
A água que você toca nos rios é a última daquela que se foi e a primeira daquela que vem. Assim é o tempo presente.
Onde há muito sentimento, há muita dor.
Quando não se pode fazer o que se deve, deve se fazer o que não se pode.
Quem pouco pensa muito erra.
O pintor que retrata por prática e a olho, sem raciocinar no que faz, é como o espelho que reproduz as coisas sem compreendê-las.
Não podemos ocultar a verdade: simular é perder tempo.
Lao Tzu
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Aquele que conhece o outro é inteligente.
Aquele que conhece a si mesmo é sábio.
Aquele que conquista o outro tem força.
Aquele que conquista a si mesmo é poderoso.
Aquele que controla a si mesmo tem força de vontade.
Aquele que se satisfaz é rico.
Aquele que não perde seu posicionamento é durável.
Aquele que faz, não morre em vida.
Acumular amor significa sorte, acumular ódio significa calamidade. Quem não reconhece a porta dos problemas, termina deixando-a aberta, e as tragédias surgem.
O fracasso é a base do sucesso, e os meios pelos quais é alcançado.
A saúde é a maior posse. O contentamento é o maior tesouro. A confiança é o maior amigo.
Se quiseres acordar toda a humanidade, então acorda-te a ti mesmo, se quiseres eliminar o sofrimento no mundo, então elimina a escuridão e negativismo em ti próprio. Na verdade, a maior dádiva que podes dar ao mundo é aquela da tua própria auto-transformação.
Se você está deprimido, você está vivendo no passado;
Se você está ansioso, você está vivendo no futuro;
Se você está em paz, você está vivendo no momento presente.
Being deeply loved gives you strength. Loving deeply gives you courage.
O sábio não se exibe, e por isso brilha.
Ele não se faz notar, e por isso é notado.
Ele não se elogia, e por isso tem mérito.
E, porque não está competindo,
ninguém no mundo pode competir com ele.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Preocupa-se com o que os outros pensam ou dizem, e você será sempre prisioneiro dele ws
O melhor lutador nunca está zangado.
A chama que queima com o dobro do brilho, queima a metade do tempo.
Observe seus pensamentos, eles se transformaram em palavras.
Observe suas palavras, elas se transformaram em ações.
Observe suas ações elas se transformaram em hábitos.
Observe seus hábitos, pois eles se transformaram em caráter.
Observe seu caráter pois ele se torna o seu destino.
Quando eu abro mão do que eu sou, eu me torno o que eu poderia ser.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Sun Tzu
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Oliver Wilkins
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Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Ragnar Lothbrok
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Power is only given to those who prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.
Yogg Saron
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Do you dream while you sleep or is it an escape from the horrors of reality?
Andrew Smith
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People fear what he doesn't understand, and hate what they can't conquer.
Cody Canteberry
G Michael Hopf
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Hard times create strong men,
strong men create good times,
good times create weak men,
and weak men create hard times.
Gen. Douglas Mcarthur
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Never forget to always help others. The more you help the more allies you can get.
TE Lawrence
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All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up into the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Jim Rohn
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O verão segue o inverno, o dia segue a noite, as oportunidades seguem as dificuldades.
A vida não está programada para dar o que queremos ou precisamos, mas o que merecemos.
Se as pessoas não o veem como um líder, é improvável que o sigam.
Leia todos livros que puder e faça o seu melhor.
Tudo que é bom será atacado.
Assuma total responsabilidade pelo que acontece com você.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
The more you know the less you need to say.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness: Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized — never knowing.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself:
- First, what could I do?
- Second, what could I read?
- And third, who could I ask?
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
The book you don't read won't help.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Benjamin Disraeli
Roberto Shinyashiki
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Não se compare à maioria, pois, infelizmente, ela não é modelo de sucesso.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
In politics, never retreat, never retract, never admit a mistake.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
A true man hates no one.
Imagination rules the world.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Respect the burden.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
War is the business of barbarians.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
I have only one counsel for you: master.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Let the path be open to talent.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Henry David Thoreau
John Burroughs
Confucius
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By three methods we may learn wisdom:
- First, by reflection, which is noblest;
- Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
- And third by experience, which is the bitterest.
St. Jerome
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
Someone may ask, "How is justice greater than all the other virtues?"
The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
You either make dust or eat dust.
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point. A cactus, not a cushion.
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
You can't hire someone to practice for you.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Seneca the Younger
Vladimir Lenin
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angela Davis
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo: obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Fulton J. Sheen
Paulo Freire
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Terence McKenna
Epictetus
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Do not try to seem wise to others.
Marilyn Monroe
Jack Canfield
Elbert Hubbard
Oprah Winfrey
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Dr. Gabor Maté
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Trauma is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you
Gabi Cirlig
Charles Bukowski
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Nos meus anos de prisão, nunca me importei com os falastrões e aqueles que viviam distribuindo ameaças. Os homens mais perigosos que já conheci eram mansos. Sempre contavam piadas e pediam licença antes de se sentarem a mesa do refeitório.
'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.
Einstein
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
John Philpot Curran
George Whitefield
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O homem orgulhoso não se dispõe de mudar de opinião, mesmo que a verdade seja esfregada na face
Thomas Paine
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Discutir com uma pessoa que renunciou a lógica é como dar remédio a um homem morto
Josemar Bessa
Julio Lobo
Daniel Fraga
African Proverbs
Jewish knowledge
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Arrogance is the kingdom, without the crown.
The man who couldn't survive the bad times, won't see the good ones.
The top of the intelligence is to reach humility.
Repentance is the key that opens any lock.
No doctor can cure the blindness of the mind.
Loyalty is one of the pillars that sustain the real value of men.
The wise man doesn't lose the occasions.
In your city what counts is your reputation. In others, your clothes.
Balthasar Gracian
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Give way to the first and you must yield to the second, and so on till the last, and to gain your point at last costs as much trouble as would have gained much more at first.
Ayn Rand
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"I don't like the thing that's happening to people, […]
But I've watched them here for twenty years and I've seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid.
It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape. They don't look at one another. They jerk when brushed against. They smile too much, but it's an ugly kind of smiling: it's not joy, it's pleading. I don't know what it is that's happening to the world." He shrugged. […]