" Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. "

Joshua J. Marine

" #3533. The law disregards trifles. "

California Civil Code, “Maxims of Jurisprudence”

" Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. "

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

" Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing. "

Epictetus Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)

" He only profits from praise who values criticism. "

Heinrich Heine German critic & poet (1797 – 1856)

" The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. "

Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

" I was going to buy a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? "

Ronnie Shakes

" Well begun is half done. "

Aristotle, Politics (quoting a proverb) Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. "

Tolkien

" The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. "

Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. "

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

" It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world. "

Shakespeare

" Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. "

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos Carthaginian church father (160 AD – 230 AD)

" The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. "

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

" This became a credo of mine…attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. "

Bette Davis US movie actress (1908 – 1989)

" Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. "

Pierre Trudeau Canadian politician (1919 – 2000)

" He who walks in another

" I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. "

Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. "

Vinet

" Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. "

Frank Zappa US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 – 1993)

" Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. "

Charles Simmons

" You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. "

Ursula Le Guin

" The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. "

Niels Bohr Danish physicist (1885 – 1962)

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