"Hope is not a method."

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Source : "Hope Is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army". Book by Gordon R. Sullivan and Michael V. Harper, September 2, 1997.

Gordon R. Sullivan

“Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.”
“An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.”

Source : Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.”
“When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.”
“And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.”
“The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.”
“Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...”
“American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.”

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