3.Quotes On Complaints:Focus:Intellectuals:Optimism:Planning:-Part 1
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"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.." -Henry David Thoreau-
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.".-Horace-
"God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.".-Imamu Amiri Baraka-
"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny;it is the political defense of women hating.".-Andrea Dworkin-
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.".-Plato-
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.".-Camille Paglia-
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.".-Robert Hewison-
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.".-Herb Caen-
"Failing to plan is planning to fail.".-Alan Lakein-
"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.".-Denzel Washington-
"Pride is an admission of weakness;it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.".-Fulton John Sheen-
"Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.".-Chris Evert-
"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.".-Mark Twain-
"We never live;we are always in the expectation of living.".-Voltaire-
"Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike;that".-Andy Warhol-
"Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.".-Bobby Hull-
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.".-Ihab Hassan-
"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.".-David Letterman-
"We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.".-Camille Paglia-
"When I think of this life I have led;the desolation of solitude it has been;the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!".-Herman Melville-
"Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.".-Captain J. G. Stedman-
"Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.".-Francis H. Bradley-
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