"Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them."

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Horace

#Mind Quotes #May Quotes

“If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.”
“The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.”
“It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.”
“If I can stop one heart from breakingâ€¦â€ Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
“There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, â€œWhoever loses his life for my sake and the gospelâ€™s will save it.â€ In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.”
“I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.”
“Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.”
“It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master”

Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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