"Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it."

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Fernando Pessoa

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“Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.”
“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”
“Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.”
“All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.”
“Without real exchange, you canâ€™t create knowledge.”

Source : "The Practical Wisdom of Ikujiro Nonaka" by Sally Helgesen, www.strategy-business.com. November 25, 2008.
“I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.”
“As George Bush's infamous for once saying by mistake, he said, "Mother Nature is a terrorist." So it was with Katrina - the devastation of it, when you think of bombs being dropped on people and then you think that a hurricane could come through and do that, the same amount of damage, it was a wake-up call in a lot of ways.”
“Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.”

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