"Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us."

-- William Feather

#Eye Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.”

Source : Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.
“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”

Source : "Baby Talk" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 29, 2009.
“Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.”
“As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami.”
“Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.”

Source : "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.
“I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.”

Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
“No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.”
“I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.”

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