"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."

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Source : "Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios". Book by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, p. 332, 1998.

Jonas Salk

#Responsibility Quotes #Be Good Quotes #Ancestor Quotes

“We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.”
“Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.”

Source : Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.117, Penguin
“My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.63, BoD – Books on Demand
“[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.”
“You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen.”
“If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.”
“I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.”
“True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2014

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