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The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#deadly #i #know #only #sin

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being. ↗

— David Packard

#assume #being #cause #company #deeper

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' ↗

— Chuck Pagano

#assistants #being #coach #dad #ever

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master. ↗

— Joy Page

#fear #greatest #greatest obstacle #life #make

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#reality #experience

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#fighting #going #humanities #i #i think

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#destroyed #excesses #generation #great #ideals

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#belief #proof #reservation #trust #without

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#funny #humor #just #made #melancholy

Education, for me, has helped me in my music. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#helped #me #music