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~ The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need. ~

Michael Parenti

~ Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win ~

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

~ It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ~

William Ward

~ The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. ~

George Santayana

~ If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. ~

Douglas Adams

~ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ~

Aristotle

~ Awareness is empowering. ~

Rita Wilson

~ Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. ~

Denis Waitley

~ To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. ~

Alfred Adler

~ Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ~

Ellis Peters

~ Peace is its own reward. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. ~

Joseph Ross

~ Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness ~

Confucius

~ Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. ~

John Lubbock

~ The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. ~

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

~ War is what happens when language fails. ~

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

~ We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. ~

Alfred North Whitehead

~ To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. ~

Hugh Prather

~ Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them. ~

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918

~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~

Dalai Lama 1935

~ The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. ~

Richard M. Nixon

Dalai Lama 1935

~ The reward of all action is to be found in enlightenment. ~

Bhagavad-Gita

~ The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. ~

Ovid

~ Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~

Spinoza

~ Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand... ~

Robert R. Brown

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