"False shame only is harmful."

-- Livy

“But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other peopleâ€™s pain into something beautiful?”
“Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.”
“... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.”
“There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.”

Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
“The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.”

Source : Speech at Crans Montana Forum, Switzerland, June 27, 1999.
“There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers takes place, and he who is begotten by this Trinity is equally begotten of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ? for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that 'that which is born of the Spirit is spirit' (Jn. 3:6), and it is 'in Christ' (I Cor. 4:15) that Paul begets, and the Father is the 'Father of all.'”
“You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her”
“When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.”

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