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#ability

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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ↗


— Freeman John Dyson


#unpredictability #dreams

CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, walking almost always in paths beaten by others, and following by imitation their deeds, are yet unable to keep entirely to the ways of others or attain to the power of those they imitate. A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. ↗


— Niccolò Machiavelli


#aim #example #followers #goal #goals

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗


— Charlotte Brontë


#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

We are all vulnerable but do not fear this, just revel in the chance to experience that & know & grow beyond. ↗


— Jay Woodman


#vulnerability #vulnerable #experience

Dad...you did it? (Shocked but keeping voice down) You did it to the others? You sent out a hundred and twenty cracked engine-heads and let those boys die! How could you do that? How? (Voice rises with anger) Dad...Dad, you killed twenty-one men! You killed them, you murdered them. (Becomes more furious) Explain it to me. Explain to me how you do it? What did you do? (Pause) Explain it to me goddammit or I will tear you to pieces! I want to know what you did, now what did you do? You had a hundred and twenty cracked engine-heads, now what did you do? Why'd you ship them out in the first place? If you knew they were cracked, then why didn't you tell them? ↗


— Arthur Miller


#kapitalisme #responsability #war #anger

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. ↗


— Sarah Palin


#family #special-needs #family

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable. ↗


— Mark R. Levin


#duty #law #righteousness #stability #unalienable

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. ↗


— Marcus Tullius Cicero


#friendship #reliability #trust #friendship

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own ↗


— Kerry E. Wagner


#inspirational #ownership #resourcefulness #responsibility #self-help

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow ↗


— Alberto Nikas


#life






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