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| 166b517 | To know more learn more. To learn more read more. To read more study more. To win more risk more. To risk more do more. To do more dream more. To dream more live more. | life-quotes motivation-quotes life-quotes-and-sayings inspiring-quotes life-quotations matshona-dhliwayo-quotes motivational-quotes success-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 11741b3 | Don't beg for houses, build them. Don't beg for jobs, create them. Don't beg for degrees, acquire them. Don't beg for titles, earn them. Don't beg for opportunities, provide them. Don't beg for helpers, draw them. Don't beg for possessions, attain them. Don't beg for followers, win them. Don't beg for admirers, multiply them. Don't beg for money, work for it. Don't beg for power, contest for it. Don't beg for success, strive for it. Don't b.. | philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes wise-sayings-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 22ef33d | Truth changes what you see. Experience changes what you feel. Illumination changes what you experience. Consciousness changes what you see. Awareness changes what you feel. Life changes what you experience. Light changes what you see. Freedom changes what you feel. Peace changes what you experience. Hope changes what you see. Compassion changes what you feel. Love changes what you experience. The past changes what you see. The present chang.. | life-quotes philosophy-quotations sage-quotes african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| a3cf6fd | The 7 Secrets of Overcoming Your Haters 1. Identify your haters. 2. Study your haters. 3. Understand your haters. 4. Confront your haters. 5. Admonish your haters. | inspirational-quotes haters-quotations haters-quotes inspiring-quotes motivational-quotations philosopher-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes motivational-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 983d3a0 | The most beautiful eyes haven't been seen yet; the most beautiful tongue hasn't been heard yet; the most beautiful hands haven't been held yet; the most beautiful mind hasn't been understood yet; the most beautiful heart hasn't been felt yet; and the most beautiful life hasn't been lived yet. The most beautiful thought hasn't been contemplated yet; the most beautiful desire hasn't been savored yet; the most beautiful experience hasn'.. | philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 3cdd526 | You are a result of your thoughts, not your circumstances; a result of your character, not your reputation; a result of your wisdom, not your education; a result of your discipline, not your limitations; a result of your talents, not your connections; a result of your understanding, not your fame; a result of your generosity, not your riches; a result of your excellence, not your titles; a result of your influence, not your position; a resu.. | philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| b18104c | Live by brains, not by brawn; by principle, not by sentiment; by facts, not by opinions; by faith, not by fear; by reason, not by emotions; by purpose, not by paycheck; by needs, not by wants; by reason, not by ignorance; by humility, not by ego; by gratitude, not by bitterness; by kindness, not by greed; by mercy, not by wrath; by compassion, not by hate; by diplomacy, not by strife; by honor, not by disrespect; by logic, not by tradition;.. | wise-quotesuotes philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 1e831de | The mind has greater power than a computer. The heart has greater power than an engine. The soul has greater power than a reactor. The tongue has greater power than a sword. The eye has greater power than a camera. The ear has greater power than a recorder. The feet are a greater invention than the car. The hands are a greater invention than the carriage. The nose is a greater invention than the vacuum. The mouth is a greater invention than.. | mindfulness-quotes philosophy-quotations sage-quotes philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 591f53d | Have the mind of a fox, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swan, and the soul of a dove. Have the fortitude of a camel, the courage of a bear, the strength of a bull, | philosopher-quotations guru-quotations african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes religion-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 80f7a1e | If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survive. If the present could be avoided, it would not prevail. Time is everyone's acquaintance, life is everyone's friend, | philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wisdom-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 1558789 | Ignorance incarcerates you, truth sets you free, and knowledge lights your way around the universe. Ego incarcerates you, humility sets you free, and gratitude lights your way around the universe. Greed incarcerates you, contentment sets you free, and charity lights your way around the universe. Fear incarcerates you, hope sets you free, and faith lights your way around the universe. Guilt incarcerates you, grace sets you free, and .. | philosophy-quotations guru-quotations african-philosopher-quotes philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes african-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 7a13b3d | If you want to sing, sing like today is your last. If you want to dance, dance like today is your last. If you want to laugh, laugh like today is your last. If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, | haters-quotes inspiring-quotes motivational-quotations guru-quotations african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes success-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 586bb73 | The more you read, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you understand. The more you understand, the more you can grow. The more you grow, the more you can do. | learn-quotes read-quotes philosopher-quotations philosophy-quotations african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| e02bee8 | Needs crawls. Want walks. Desire runs. Lust sprints. Love soars. Peace crawls. Pleasure walks. Excitement runs. Happiness sprints. Joy soars. Doubt crawls. Expectation walks. Hope runs. Courage sprints. Faith soars. Skill crawls. Talent walks. Excellence runs. Brilliance sprints. Genius soars. Intelligence crawls. Insight walks. Understanding runs. | life-quotes african-philosopher-quotes philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 21d266e | Wisdom is my religion. Books are my priest. Libraries are my temple. Enlightenment is my heaven. Love is my religion. Compassion is my priest. The world is my temple. The universe is my heaven. Truth is my religion. Conscience is my priest. Conviction is my temple. Virtue is my heaven. Freedom is my religion. Tolerance is my priest. Harmony is my temple. Peace is my heaven. Nature is my religion. Light is my priest. | african-philosopher-quotes philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes african-philosophy-quotes guru-quotes solomonology-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes wise-quotes enlightenment-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| d785781 | If he had wanted to impose a monarchy upon America, Hamilton said, he would follow the classic path of a populist demagogue: "I would mount the hobbyhorse of popularity, I would cry out usurpation, danger to liberty etc. etc. I would endeavour to prostrate the national government, raise a ferment, and then ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 17639c8 | Because Conway persisted in maligning Washington, he was summoned to the dueling ground by General John Cadwalader, who fired a ball through Conway's mouth that came out the back of his head. Cadwalader showed no regret. "I have stopped the damned rascal's lying tongue at any rate," he observed as his opponent lay in agony on the ground." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 298a2b6 | As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 3d55cf9 | This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America. The funding debate shattered the short-lived political consensus that had ushered in the new government. For the next five years, the political spectrum in America was defined by whether people endorsed or opposed Alexander Hamilton's programs. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 59462f0 | The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays. | Ron Chernow | ||
| eaf1505 | Abigail Adams, who did not set sail until November, seemed miffed by the enforced southward shift, swearing that she would try to enjoy Philadelphia but that "when all is done it will not be Broadway." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 6ba884e | In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and organizing an orderly retreat. "'The American troops would not stand the British bayonets," he insisted to Washington. "You damned poltroon," Washington rejoined, "you never tried them!" Always reluctant to resort to profanities, the chaste Washington cursed at Lee "till the leaves shook on the tree," recal.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 83ac25e | Both Hamilton and Jefferson believed in democracy, but Hamilton tended to be more suspicious of the governed and Jefferson of the governors. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 968c5e9 | This fierce defender of private property--this man for whom contracts were to be sacred covenants--expressly denied the sanctity of any agreement that stripped people of their freedom. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9f5ac15 | Hamilton's relatively short life robbed him not only of any chance for further accomplishment but of the opportunity to mold his historical image. | Ron Chernow | ||
| d493dc4 | Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 6e1b969 | The task of government was not to stop selfish striving--a hopeless task--but to harness it for the public good. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 594f14d | This, I confess, hurts my feelings, and if it obtains credit will require a contradiction, | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2bb5fc9 | Clearly, this ambivalent twenty-year-old favored the Revolution but also worried about the long-term effect of habitual disorder, especially among the uneducated masses. Hamilton lacked the temperament of a true-blue revolutionary. He saw too clearly that greater freedom could lead to greater disorder and, by a dangerous dialectic, back to a loss of freedom. Hamilton's lifelong task was to try to straddle and resolve this contradiction and .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 83d61eb | Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term effects. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul. Power's comings and goings, from host to host, via war, marriage, ballet box, diktat, and accident of birth, are the plot of history. The empowered may serve just.. | power | David Mitchell | |
| 02041c7 | Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small? | David Mitchell | ||
| e01161d | All rising suns set, Archivist. [...] All revolutions are [fantacy, lunacy], until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. [...] I was not genomed to alter history, [...] no revolutionary ever was. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4f541c1 | I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day because I was too cowardly to hang myself. | David Mitchell | ||
| acd6be5 | I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay, babbybies o' blissweed cradled me that night, then the drummin' started up, see ev'ry tribe had its own drums. Foday o' Lotus Pond Dwellin' an' two-three Valleysmen played goatskin'n'pingwood tom-toms, an' Hilo beardies thumped their flumfy-flumfy drums an' a Honokaa fam'ly beat their sash-krrangers an' Honomu folk got the.. | David Mitchell | ||
| d919bd9 | Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! | David Mitchell | ||
| c1a3ab1 | Tumbado en el fondo de la canoa, veia balancearse las nubes. Las almas surcan las eras como las nubes los cielos, y aunque las nubes cambien continuamente de forma, color y tamano, una nube siempre es una nube, y un alma siempre es un alma. ?Quien sabe de donde vienen las nubes y donde estara el alma manana? Solo lo sabe Sonmi: el este y el oeste, la brujula y el atlas, si senor, el atlas de las nubes. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3f7d3cf | Nowadays, in Japan, when mother, or baby, or mother and baby die in childbirth, people say, 'Ah...they die because gods decide so.' Or, 'They die because bad karma.' Or, 'They die because o-mamori--magic from temple--too cheap.' Mr. de Zoet understand, it is same as bridge. True reason of many,. Many death of ignoration. I wish to build bridge from ignoration," her tapering hands form a bridge, "to knowledge. This," she lifts, with reverenc.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1a68a60 | Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning Flora Japonica to be published one day--as a votive offering to human knowledge--but a seat at Uppsala, or Leiden, or Cambridge, holds no allure. My heart is the East's in this lifetime. This is my third year in Nagasaki, and I have work enough for another three, or six. During the court embassy I can.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 927bad0 | Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes." | time minutes years | David Mitchell | |
| fa05dde | His skin was blotched as a dying banana. | David Mitchell | ||
| 13c58fa | Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A merry activity?' This was hopeless. 'Writing poems is . . . what creeps and poofters do.' 'So are you one of these ,,creeps"? 'No.' 'Then you are a ,,pooof-ter", whatever one is?' 'No!' 'Then your logic is eluding me." | David Mitchell | ||
| 994ce26 | But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?' 'Who?' 'Um . . .' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious came to mind. | David Mitchell | ||
| 36d4093 | Just as I was flung over the threshold, I embraced Grigoire the Swiss Fiance in a rugger grip, determined that smug cockatoo was coming with me...Stone steps and icy pavements bruised my own flesh as black as his, banged my elbows and hips just as hard, but at least mine was not the only ruined evening in Bruges, and I yelled, kicking his ribs once for each word, before half-running, half-hobbling off on my whacked ankle, 'Love hurts!' | David Mitchell | ||
| f3df555 | A book can't be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant | genre | David Mitchell |