"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln The manner in which the importance of...
Thanks for the 'update' on the expected publication date, Bill. I'll amend my wording to 'mid-2005'. All the best with the checking of the 'index'. Take care,...
"No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge Giving money to help others receives only...
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" - Franz Kafka Those with the ability to see real beauty (as opposed to manufactured beauty) have...
The penalty that good men [and women] pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. - Plato, philosopher (427-347...
You will never think of a child in the same way again. You will learn about why you are the way you are than at any other time in your life. Parenting and...
Builder wrote: 1. The most unpleasant and dangerous people you know will no longer have any real power over you. 2. You will learn how it is possible to feel...
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs Jobs, one of the founders of Apple Computers,...
"Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values." - Brian Tracy No matter what anyone says against you,...
I have maintained for the past few years that anyone who reads Turning It Around will learn something new on almost every page. This is aside from the main...
Democracy, government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is only as good as the governed demand. - Anu Garg "Government of the people" means...
"Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." - Maxwell Maltz This is a variation on the idea...
Our greatest fear is that we are inadequate. - Marianne Williamson This observation is about societies, not necessarily about individuals. Thus, as with any...
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) The...
"Death is just a distant rumor to the young." - Andy Rooney Rooney means that young people do not consider that what they do might result in their own death....
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson The one and only reason why this progression could...
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885) As often as this is proven (a Nobel Prize for Economics...
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. -...
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles, statesman (430 BCE) Politics has two sets...
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." - Thomas Huxley (1825-1895) This absolute rejection of authority...
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984) You can shake hands with a clenched jaw....
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. - Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980) The evidence bears out...
"Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free." - Will Durant, the intro to `The Story of Philosophy' It helps if those who are fighting for freedom...
"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum "Worry" is not the operative word here. It would be...
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - US Supreme Court Justice Louis D....
"The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency....
"Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant – its life...
Having completed his task of creating an index for Turning It Around, the professional indexer had some comments about the text. This is a man who went...
I found this today and could not resist sending it to you. "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit...
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