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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine

Good Religion Man Every Bad Know Him None Teaches

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be. Tomas Transtromer

These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power. Valerie Plame

Government You Constitution Words Abuse Of Power Power About Written Since Abuse How Issues Been Account Hold Your Deeds Grappling

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? W. E. B. Du Bois

Work Leadership Survival Natural People First Sole Has-Been Retarded Mass Obstacles Educated Were Been Led Very Intelligent Efforts Unfit Race Race Prejudice Prejudice Internal Elevated Slavery

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Warren Bennis

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. Warren Farrell

Complaining Men Society Our Nails Like Sound

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. Washington Irving

Every Minds Way Solitary Thousand Some Seem Through Disadvantage Almost Obstacles Springing Up Irresistible Themselves Create Working

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. Washington Irving

Life History Woman Life Is A Affections Whole

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. Whittaker Chambers

Life Death Struggle Soul Suffering Crime Free Pain Defeat Seeks Cost Occurs Infamy Tragedy Itself Human Even Human Soul Violence

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs

Silence Communication People Only Frightening Who

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. Ursula K. Le Guin

Me Fool World Imagination All The World Gives Makes Human

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired. Adam-Troy Castro

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below. Ameen Rihani

Government Few Above Autocracy Bolshevism Below

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. Amos Oz

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. Andre Maurois

You Man Woman Fool People Intelligence Enemy Angel Complete Indifference Look Well Make Contemptuous Been Scornful Them Might Average Average Intelligence Turns Who Treated

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform. Andrew J. Bernstein

You Yourself Goals Stress Setting Setting Goals Dramatically Distinguish Ability Having Pushing Perform Between Deadlines Reduce Stimulating Stimulation Anxious Upset Which Frustrated Capacity Your Need

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life Day Daily Wise Women Every Day Simplicity Men Control Every Our Books Our Lives Circus Run Steady Kitchen Head Wise Men Perform Look Balancing Pile Tightrope Still Us Warn Act Chair Multiplicity Now Lives

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. Anthony J. D'Angelo

Time You Complain About Something Whine Then

Every clarification breeds new questions. Arthur Bloch

Every Clarification New Questions Breeds

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