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“The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”

“You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go”

“If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.”

“We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.”

“There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.”

“One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”

“The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.”

“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”

“Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.”

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

“As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.”

“be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.”

“The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.”

“I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.”

“There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.”

“We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.”

“Return good for good; return evil with justice.”

“How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?”

“A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.”

“Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.”

“Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.”

“It is better to play than do nothing.”

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

“Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.”

“It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?”

“If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.”

“Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.”

“Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!”

“Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.”

“Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?”

“At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.”

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”

“If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.”

“If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space.The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.”

“The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.”

“The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.”

“Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.”

“There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .”

“Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."”

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

“The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.”

“The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.”

“A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.”

“Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.”