"Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it."

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Source : "Nathan Hale's Mission". CIA Historical Review Program document, www.cia.gov. July 02, 1996.

Nathan Hale

#Pantheon Quotes #Hale Quotes

“To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.”

Source : Christoph Martin Wieland (1861). “The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas”, p.31
“You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.”
“The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.”

Source : Arnold Mindell (1995). “Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity”, Not Applicable
“Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.”
“We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.”
“It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.”
“Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. â€¦ in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask â€“ and in how we pursue them â€“ but not in the answers awaiting us.”

Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We create revolution by living it.”

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