Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Category: Quotations (Page 37 of 52)
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965)
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A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat on his strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbour. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth – we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of March the selected quotation is by Henry Ford (1863-1947) – American industrialist converted the automobile from an expensive luxury into an affordable vehicle that had massive impact on the United States and the world.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
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Wonders are many on earth and none is more beautiful than man; (…) speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a state, hath he taught himself. Sophocles– Antigone
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The future is not what it used to be – Mark Strand
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of July the selected quotation is by Byron Dorgan (b. 1942) – Former U.S. Senator for North Dakota, author of several books about politics and money.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own – Benjamin Disraeli
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