— Kahlil Gibran"True authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."
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“"There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics."
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— Alton Brown"I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school."
— Baruch Spinoza"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."
— Socrates"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
— Henry Beard"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."
— Marcus Aurelius"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
— George Washington"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
— Andrew Weil"A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits."
— Dennis Prager"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence."
— Abraham Lincoln"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
— Jonathan Sacks"In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint."