“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo […]
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“Don’t confuse confidence with arrogance. Arrogance is being full of yourself, feeling you’re always right, and believing your accomplishments or abilities make you better than other people. People often believe arrogance is excessive confidence, but it is really a lack of confidence. Arrogant people are insecure, and often repel others. Truly confident people feel good […]
“Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to […]
“Woe to you…you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are”. (The Holy Bible – Mathew 23:15) These are troubled times. The world is sitting on the tinderbox of religious extremism. […]
“In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the colour Of the crystal through which one sees it” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca It was a Saturday afternoon. I was home. The calling bell rang and I opened the door. It was the ‘police uncle’, […]
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working […]
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” –Isaac Asimov Death kills just once. But the fear of death kills every moment. When I was young, I saw people, young and old, dying around me. But the reality of my own death never struck me. As I grew up, a frightening sense […]
