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"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

You can tell a good deal about a person by observing whom they admire, and who admires them.

Nothing is more dangerous and intractable than stupidity. It's dangerous because it is unpredictable and intractable because it cannot be cured without killing the patient.

"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell

The marketing guru David Ogilvy said that talent is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels. I would add eccentrics.

It has been observed that the more outrageous a claim is, the more effective it is at winnowing out the skeptical, and leaving only the true believers who will remain devoted in spite of any contradictory evidence.

Just because something isn't 'your' way doesn't mean it isn't 'a' way.

The only material needed for men to fashion their various gods is ignorance, and this is always plentiful.

Even those who claim not to believe in free will, behave as if they do.

Men are most prone to believe in those things which they do not understand.

If you don't have an end goal or purpose, what are you doing? Idling?

I can in no measure agree with those who suggest that we should not judge others. This is utter nonsense, for judging is merely a matter of approving or disapproving.

It is a grave error to advise us to return injury with kindness. Injury should be returned with justice, and kindness with kindness.

When it comes to death, each of us lives in an unfortified city.

Having a compelling case to make, and making it compellingly, are two very different things.

Those who choose to behave improperly have already chosen to accept a very loose connection with reality.

'Cafeteria Christians' are those who pick and choose what they will believe and obey as if the were ordering from an ala carte menu.

Humans have a tendency to attribute our situation to outside circumstances which are beyond our control. This is s serious error in judgment. As it has been noted, circumstances do not make the man, they simply reveal him.

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

Eric Hoffer

What we allow to distract us will eventually define us.