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Samuel Butler


If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster


No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva


All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

John C. Maxwell, The 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader


Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.

Anais Nin


Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Vince Lombardi


Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Frank Herbert, Dune


Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Marva Collins


Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Edward De Bono


Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Howard Gossage


If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

Susanne Langer


In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

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