8.Quotes On Contentment:Focus:Intellectuals:Optimism:Planning-Part 4
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"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.." -Hermann Hesse-
"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.".-Noam Chomsky-
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;these three alone lead one to sovereign power.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.".-Brooks Atkinson
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"What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.".-Adlai E. Stevenson-
"Doctors are the same as lawyers;the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.".-Anton Chekhov-
"If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.".-Wyndham Lewis-
"To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.".-Nathaniel Branden-
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.".-Hunter S. Thompson-
"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us;concentrate our energy.".-Denis Waitley-
"It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.".-Norman Tebbit-
"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.".-Billy Graham-
"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.".-Hunter S. Thompson-
"The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.".-Phyllis Schlafly-
"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.".-Victor Hugo-
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"Thou shalt not covet;but tradition approves all forms of competition.".-Arthur Hugh Clough-
"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.".-Arnold Palmer-
"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-
"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.".-Dr. Robert Anthony-
"Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.".-Les Brown-
"By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.".-Ian Mcewan-
"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.".-Lee Iacocca-
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.".-Lou Holtz-
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.".-Winston Churchill-
"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves;they fill those they meet with a free mind.".-Philo-
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.".-Albert Einstein-
"Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives;and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.".-A. C. Swinburne-
"Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.".-Alexander Herzen-
"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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