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I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.
When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.
You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.
Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.
It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.
God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
If you will be humble and ask God what to do, I promise you that he will always prepare a way for your deliverance.
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.
'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wonderfully, indecorously literate.
Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.
The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.