#their

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#death #love #martyrs #men #prophets

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#freedom #hard #independence #land #our

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#anything #cease #neighbors #their #themselves

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#defense #embraced #fire #heroes #honor

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.' ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#dough #get #kid #know #none

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#billionaires #estimates #i #i think #increase

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#checking #decision #executives #expectations #improve

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#fellow #important #individuals #jobs #organization