#ss

The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security. ↗

— Dennis C. Blair

#benefit #bottom #bottom line #damage #done

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#dignity #enough #exclamation #life #live

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own. ↗

— Loretta Devine

#find #i #my own #own #process

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ↗

— John Dewey

#find #fitted #happiness #key #opportunity

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#chief #exercise #faculties #improvement #our

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

#failures #his #instructive #learns #much

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#exactness #great #literature #purity #standard

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ↗

— Buddha

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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ↗

— John Dewey

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