"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart."

-- John Jay Chapman

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“Music that paints nothing is only noise.”
“It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward”

Source : Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.92, Hachette UK
“Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.”
“The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.”
“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.”

Source : "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry", news.bbc.co.uk. March 25, 2001.
“The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying”
“Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.”
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

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