"I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens."

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

#Class Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Three Quotes

“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.”
“People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 12, 2010
“Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!”
“Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.”

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.136
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.”
“Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”
“It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.”
“Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.”

Source : "Pirkei Avot". A Mishna tractate. Chapter 1:12, www.chabad.org.

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