"Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise."

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Source : Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

Robert Baden-Powell

#Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.”
“I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.”

Source : "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.
“Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.”
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
“When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"”
“Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.”
“To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!”
“when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.”

Source : Julia Gregson (2009). “East of the Sun: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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