"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."

-- Alexander Alekhine

#Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.”
“The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.”

Source : Richard Strozzi-Heckler (2011). “In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets”, p.75, North Atlantic Books
“I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.”
“If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.”

Source : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY
“The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.”
“When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.”

Source : Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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