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We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -John W. Gardner-

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand; Atlas Shrugged, 1957

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you." - Maya Angelou

“My jewelry game sick, I think my jeweler need chemo.... Mahatma Gandhi 1942

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and
celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing

Self control is strength, right thought is mastery, calmness is power.

- James Allen

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― Carl Gustav Jung