"We prepare for success by acquiring virtues."

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Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

Ted Malloch

“The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.”

Source : "Assassin's Creed: Unity". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2014.
“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”
“As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.”

Source : "Riders of the Purple Wage or The Great Gavage". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1967.
“I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of me. And a lot of these lyrics are metaphors for specific life situations that I've been through, and in most cases, the struggles. Something about human beings wearing sadness heavily on their sleeve inspires me to make something uplifting about the situation.”

Source : "AWOLNATION Confronts the Megalith". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2011.
“You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.”
“Wizards don't all look alike.”
“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
“Don't look at people like they're fools. I don't want to be misunderstand...and I don't want to be a fool again.”

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