"Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow."

-- James Freeman Clarke

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“Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.”
“It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.”

Source : "Secretary Kerry, Mr. Obama, emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars" by Kathleen Troia McFarland, www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2013.
“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
“See, decide, attack, reverse.”
“I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.”
“It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.”
“Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.”
“Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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