"The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.”
“The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.”
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”
“A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.”
“The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.”

Source : Joseph Henry (1886). “Scientific Writings”
“I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.”
“I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.51, B&H Publishing Group
“Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.11

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