#dent

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. ↗

— Periander

#moderate #prosperity #prudent

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#case #certain #certain way #confident #doubting

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education. ↗

— Bill Owens

#any #capita #college #colorado #degrees

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#either #hands #hitler #house #i

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. ↗

— Major Owens

#cannot #education #excitement #get #go

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience. ↗

— Major Owens

#better #consistently #cost #end #experience

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#enemy #establishes #even #guard #himself

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom