"If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best."

-- Dalai Lama

#Compassion Quotes #Effort Quotes #Done Quotes

“At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.”
“Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.”

Source : Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins (1979). “What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods”, Oxford University Press, USA
“To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.”
“These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.”
“I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.”
“I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."”
“Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]”

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