"So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on."

-- Roger McDonald

#Lying Quotes #Goal Quotes #Way Quotes

“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.”
“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.”
“I would like to thank my coach for believing in me”

Source : "Argentina's footballers claim gold". www.cnn.com. August 28, 2004.
“I work with nature, although in completely new terms.”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
“The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.”
“A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.”
“Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.”

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