"Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile."

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Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

Grenville Kleiser

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“New media is ... an amazing form of direct marketing in that you really get a sense of who your customer is, and you also get to know those people who may not be your customers yet but are aspirational and are hoping to be.”
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.”
“You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.”
“We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.”

Source : Ian Hacking (1984). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.142, Cambridge University Press
“I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.”
“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”
“My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson”
“In relationships it is best to assume nothing.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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