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* "The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt."
John Kenneth Galbraith* "People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
John Kenneth Galbraith* "People are the common denominator of progress. So . . . no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills and the other familiar furniture of economic development. . . . But we are coming to realize . . . that there is certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first."
John Kenneth Galbraith* "In general, whatever experience you have, whether dreams or real, if you cling to them as real, they will become an obstacle. If you know them as illusion, they become the path."
The Songs of Lord Gampopa* "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competiton there."
Indira Gandhi* "Almost anything you do will seem insignificant but it is very important that you do it. . . . You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi* "It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save their honour, their religion, their soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration."
Mahatma Gandhi* "Be the change you want to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi* Gandhi's Seven Social Sins:
POLITCS Without Principles
WEALTH Without Work
COMMERCE Without Morality
EDUCATION Without Character
PLEASURE Without Conscience
SCIENCE Without Humanity
WORSHIP Without Sacrifice
Mahatma Gandhi* "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
Gandhi* "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing their education." (*)
John W. Gardner* "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."
John W. Gardner* "The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment."
John Gay* "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
Edward Gibbon* "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
Andre Gide* "The world will be saved by one or two people."
Andre Gide* "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
Kahil Gibran* "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
Kahil Gibran* "The employer generally gets the employees they deserve." (*)
Walter Gilby* "You cannot fight against the future--time is on our side."
William Gladstone* "People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a person faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, they can have some control over their destiny. That's an existing {*exciting?*} idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen."
John H. Glenn Jr.* "The souls that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful."
Parke Godwin* "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* "Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* "We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe gold ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.It is not just as we take it,
This mystical world of ours,
Life's field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or of flowers."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* "Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
Sir James Goldsmith* "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important onging activity."
Paul Goodman* "Remember that happiness is a way of travel--not a destination."
Roy M. Goodman* "The present-day global landscape is one of profound crisis, which could end either in the death of humankind or in the breakthrough to a new civilization. . . . It is up to all of us who live today on this planet. . . ."
Mikhail Gorbachev* "I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people."
Robert Graves* "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age. When the sense of curiosity has withered."
Graham Greene* "Responsibility . . . requires that a person think, speak and act as if personally accountable to all who may be affected by his or her thoughts, words and deeds. . . . Awareness is important. . . . Am I moving in the right direction? Is my sense of responsibility growing, deeping, becoming sharper and more insistent? . . . A sense of responsibility is an attitude, a feeling."
Robert K. Greenleaf* "If you want to understand yourselves, [find a way to] be yourselves and you will."
Franklin Greenwald* "The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy and envy."
Germaine Greer* "Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."
Germaine Greer* "The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
Alan Gregg* "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Stephen Grellet* "There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy."
Joyce Grenfell* "Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom."
Hugo Grotius* "You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty."
Sacha Guitry
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* "We do not inherit this land from opur ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
Haida saying* "From the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he [Haldane] concluded that the Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles."
J.B.S. Haldane* "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. . . . I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy."
J.B.S. Haldane* "When a person is wrong and won't admit it, they always get angry." (*)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton* "Those that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but they will do very few things." (*)
Lord Halifax (George Savile)* "The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."
Lord Halifax (George Savile)* "Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught."
Lord Halifax (George Savile)* "They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money."
Lord Halifax (George Savile)
* "When the freedom they wishes for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again."
Edith Hamilton* "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only they who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road." (*)
Dag Hammarskjold* "In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."
Dag Hammarskjold* "It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump."
Lord Harlech* "Business has become, in this last half century, the most powerful institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility for the whole. . . ."
Willis Harman (Global Mind Change)* "Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from dictates of government and the results of battles but through vast numbers of people changing their minds--sometimes only a little bit."
Willis Harman (Global Mind Change)* "There are only two worries in this world: The worry that you can resolve--so do something about it! [And] the worry that you can't resolve--so forget about it."
Mike Harper* "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
Sydney J. Harris* "A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
Sydney J. Harris* "Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life."
Josephine Hart* "If, of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, 'It might have been,'
More sad are these we daily see:
'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'"
Bret Harte* "For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest."
Hasidic saying* "The person who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." (*)
Henry S. Haskins* "Strategy is better than strength."
Hausa proverb* "We live in a postmodern world where nearly everything is possible and nothing is certain."
Vaclav Havel* "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect in human weakness and in human responsibility. Without a global resolution in human consciousness nothing will change for the better and catastophe will be unavoidable."
Vaclav Havel* "The behaviour of the universe on a very large scale seems to be simple and not chaotic."
Stephen Hawking* "Happiness is as a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne* "Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. They are born with the tragedy that they have to grow up . . . a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
Helen Hayes* "The Human Race is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for they are the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been." (*)
William Hazlitt* "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt* "Keep in mind that Tao means how: how things happen. Learn to become more conscious of what is actually happening."
John Heider (The Tao of Leadership)* "As individuals we move into the future on the mingled accident and design of our lives."
Robert L. Heilbroner* "If you understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely."
Sir Arthur Helps* "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
Nelson Henderson* "The future arrives of its own accord, progress does not."
Paul Henningsen* "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
Patrick Henry* "What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?"
Will Henry* "One doth but breakfast here, another dines, those that liveth longest doth but sup; we must all go to bed in another world."
Joseph Henshaw* "There is nothing permanent except change." ("Everything flows and nothing stays.")
Heracleitus* "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."
Heracleitus* "All things are in a state of flux."
Heracleitus* "People must not do things for fun. We are not hear for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament."
Sir A.P. Herbert* "For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost."
George Herbert* "This is the worst pain a person can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."
Herodotus* "Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
Don Herold* "There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."
Hermann Hesse* "If I am not for myself who is for me; and being for my own self what am I? If not now when?"
Hillel "The Elder"* "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
Eric Hoffer* "In times 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."
Eric Hoffer* "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
Eric Hoffer* "You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All people have claims on man, and to the person with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a person take part in the actions and clashes of their time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all." (*)
Oliver Wendell Holmes* "Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity."
Oliver Wendell Holmes* "Man is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to affirm the worth of an end, is to create an ideal."
Oliver Wendell Holmes* "All life is an experiment."
Oliver Wendell Holmes* "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Oliver Wendell Holmes* "Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round."
Homer* "To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than."
Oscar Homolka* "I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty."
Ellen Sturgis Hooper* "To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way."
Horace* "While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future."
Horace* "What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
Marina Horner* "No person would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next."
Ed (E.W.) Howe* "Pessimism is only the name that people of weak nerves give to wisdom."
Elbert Hubbard* "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
Elbert Hubbard* "Life is just one damned thing after another."
Elbert Hubbard* "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
Elbert Hubbard* "To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard* "To-morrow cheats us all. Why dost thou stay,
And leave undone what should be done to-day?
Begin--the present minute's in thy power;
But still t'adjourn, and wait a fitter hour,
Is like the clown, who at some river's side
Expecting stands, in hopes the running tide
Will all ere long be past. Fool! not to know
It still has flow'd the same, and will forever flow."
Hughes* "If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother."
Victor Hugo* "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo* "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
Victor Hugo* "Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
Harold S. Hulbert* "Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
Francis Hutcheson* "Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting."
Aldous Huxley* "That people do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach." (*)
Aldous Huxley* "'There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. Your own self,' he repeated. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you've worked on your own corner."
Aldous Huxley* "Experience is not what happens to people. It is what a person does with what happens to them." (*)
Aldous Huxley* "Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."
Aldous Huxley* "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleans, Caesars and Napoleans will duly arise and make them miserable."
Aldous Huxley* "Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shame, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Aldous Huxley* "Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley* "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that they learn thoroughly." (*)
Thomas Huxley* "The great end of life is not knowledge, but action."
Thomas Huxley
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* "The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone."
Henrik Ibsen* "I too think that time and space are concepts created by the human mind and that if we attempt to find out what their true natures are, we are compelled to return to the nature of the greater life force."
Daisaku Ikeda and Arnold Toynbee* "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."
Ivan Illich* "Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans."
Indian saying* "The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before it is born." (*)
William R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's* "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."
William R. Inge* "The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shout."
William R. Inge* "A person may build themselves a throne of bayonets, but they cannot sit on it."(*)
William R. Inge* "My creed is that:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make other so."
Robert G. Ingersoll* "Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wilderness and variety, must plinge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice."
Washington Irving* "Between saying and doing many pairs of shoes are worn out."
Italian proverb* "By comprehending
all the world
in all the world,
just as it is,
in all the world
there is release,
in all the world
nothing is held."
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* "Society is all wrong. All those vibrations of fear. You have to change not only the set-up but the whole concept. You have to learn how to live in the moment and enjoy it."
Mick Jagger* "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitary, is that it be interesting."
Henry James* "The balloon of experience is in fact of course tied to the earth, and under that necessary we swing, thanks to a rope of remarkable length, in the more or less commodious can of the imagination; but it is by the rope we know where we are, and from the moment that cable is cut we are at large and unrelated."
Henry James* "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
Henry James* "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James* "A free person is as jealous of their responsibilities as they are of their liberties."(*)
William James* "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
William James* "The great use of life is to spend it for soemthing that will outlast it."
William James* "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
William James* "Whatever you are it is your own friends who make your world."
William James* "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
William James* "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James* "When you study the history of life, and step back to look at this long history with the perspective of several hundred million years, you see a flow and direction in it--from the simple to the complex, from lower forms to higher, and always towards greater intellegence--and you wonder: can this history of events leading to man, with its clear direction, yet be undirected?"
Robert Jastrow* "Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."
Sir James Jeans* "A new commandment I give unto you. That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
John 13:34 (Bible)* "Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right."
Lyndon B. Johnson* "All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
Nicholas Johnson* "The future is purchased by the present."
Samuel Johnson* "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."
Samuel Johnson* "I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little."
Samuel Johnson* "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire."
Samuel Johnson* "To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
Samuel Johnson* "It is our first duty to serve society, and, after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. A youthful passion for abstracted devotion should not be encouraged."
Samuel Johnson* "It matters not how a person dies, but how they live. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." (*)
Samuel Johnson* "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
Samuel Johnson* "None but a fool worries about things they cannot influence." (*)
Samuel Johnson* "If a person does not make new acquaintances as they advances through life, they will soon find themselves left alone. A person should keep their friendship in constant repair."
Samuel Johnson* "Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. Those that are extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption."
Samuel Johnson* "He who praises everybody praises nobody."
Samuel Johnson* "If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it."
Samuel Johnson* "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson* "Resolve not to be poor, whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness, it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
Samuel Johnson* "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Samuel Johnson* "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Samuel Johnson* "Excellence can be achieved, if we:
Care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Expect more than others think is possible."
Deborah Johnson-Ross* "My opinion is that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed."
Sir William Jones* "A person becomes a conservative at that moment in their life when they suddenly realize they have something to conserve." (*)
Eric Julber* "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should forst examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Julian of Norwich* "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Carl Gustav Jung* "The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitful appendage to life's morning."
Carl Gustav Jung
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