"My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

Source : Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.

Robert E. Lee

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit: super trouper" by Justine Picardie, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 13, 2008.
“If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.”
“Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.”
“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”
“In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.”

Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Creating a Role”, p.193, A&C Black
“I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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