"Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things."

-- Alfie Kohn

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“Opportunities are where the complaints are.”
“When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.”
“We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves usâ€”which in most cases is a very long timeâ€”but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.”
“So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.”
“Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.”
“The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of Jesus that it finds at once its lay and its religious consecration.”
“Martial arts was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I wasn't getting what I needed from college. When I realized that I could fight for money and have it be part of my learning experience as a martial artist, it made perfect sense for me to dive into fighting.”

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“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”

Source : Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776

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