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That a Man should know the measure of his Gift, that he may desire and take a better when God giveth it.
Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.
Control | Reputation |
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
Happy | Reputation |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.
Good | Happy | Mathematics | Reputation | Waste | Old |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
Human nature | Mercy | Nature | Temptation | Will | Temptation |
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.
Attention | Contradiction | Dignity | Discovery | Habit | Innovation | Knowledge | Lord | Man | Mind | Reputation | Science | Society | Study | System | Terror | Theology | Thought | Time | Society | Discovery | Thought |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely ignorant of the reasons for everything I saw and heard and felt, and was merely a parrot prompted by other parrots... When I sought to advance along that infinite course, I could neither find one single footpath or fully discover one single object, and from the upward leap I made to contemplate eternity I fell back into the abyss of my ignorance.
Important | Journey | Reputation | Science | Learn |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
A fault is fostered by concealment.
Mercy | Providence |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Have no fear to not know where you are going in life.
An admirable thing, the poetry of a people is the gauge of its progress. The quantity of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
The more a man neglects his own life the more he will be compelled to wrongly involve himself in the lives of others. This accounts for the neurotic reformer, the busybody, the general troublemaker. Being self-deceived he will always credit himself with noble motives. This is a good example of the wrong use of natural energy.