Category: Quotes
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China’s President Hu Jintao
“Challenge and opportunity always come together — under certain conditions, one could be transformed into the other.”
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Rahm Doctrine
Op-Ed Columnist – Spock at the Bridge – NYTimes.com “Take advantage of a crisis to grab an opportunity.”
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George S. Patton on Winning a Battle
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if…
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Daniel Bell
A socially mobile person has no ready guide for acquiring new knowledge on how to live “better” than before.
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God on Trial – PBS
Here are some of the sides of the trial:God is on trial for murder, conspiring to murder and more murder. God had a covenant with the Jewish people… they are chosen. People have sins and are being punished. Good people are being punished. God is not punishing individuals but instead a whole group. If God…
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On Buddhism For Me
The goal of the teachings of Buddhism is to become less ATTACHED to things that are IMPERMANENT. Move toward love, happiness and compassion. Move away from suffering. Everything that goes up comes down. Everything that lives dies. Everything that succeeds fails. You get what you give. The one desire you want to commit to is…
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From some economist on the radio
Action without information is fanatical.Information without action is frustration.
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T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club
I couldn’t rip myself away from the screen as I watched T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club. Here are some quotes from that speech that stood out to me: I don’t care who you meet, you’ll never meet someone who’s drilled more dry holes than me. Anything is better than foreign oil for…
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Old Trail School – Headmaster: John Farber
Involvement in extra curriculars is a leading indicator of success after high school.
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Quotes From Joe Biden
“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your books and I’ll tell you what you value.” “The measure of success is not how many times you get knocked down, it’s how quick you get up.”
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Andrew Bacevich – The Limits of Power
This is from The Week (September 19, 2008):Bacevich argues that a generation-plus of profligacy at home is feeding reckless U.S. militarism abroad, and that neither trend is sustainable. “Tacitly, at least, the American people are complicit” in the wreckage created by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he says, because preserving the “American way of ife”…