You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. ~ Michael Dell
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You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. ~ Michael Dell
Hi,
I'm a quotes lover, above all when they challenge my mind. I heard that from a dead Catalan writer, Josep Pla, when he was interviwed in the Serrano's Spanish program (decades ago) and said quoting Paul Valéry "the deepest thing in man is his skin". Again, against the idealism. Maybe...
...and luck and you must work nearly too much to achieve your goal....But always depends from what you want, what is your ambition (Be a secondary school teacher or the next Bill Gates).
Don't be too quick to call a spade a spade. Check the compromising effects upon yourself. When the Russian males raised their middle fingers and endorsed them on Margaret Thatcher for returning the kingdom to the meritorious psychology of Alfred the Great, and called her "the unlady of the west," they thought they knew what they were talking about, and so, The Iron Lady acquired the Russian fantasy, flew all over Asia always with the middle finger up the Russian assos. ~ C A Cafolini
When the Jsapanese performed the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill said: I rejoyced with the attack on Pearl Harbor, not because of the tragedy or the insane undertaking, but because it told Americans that they had been at war already for several years, and they had remained indifferent to the realities that were inevitable.
Churchill was correct and we Americans had a very rude awakening to the facts.
When Yamamoto was ordered to attack Pearl Harbor, he warned. But few paid attention.
I know Americans. I studied in USA. They are a very noble people. I don't know that I can hold then for more than a year. ~ Yamamoto
No officer of high rank paid attention to him. He was correct.
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ~ Salman Rushdie
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.~ Isoroku Yamamoto
I feel it is impossible not to be amazed by those who want total nuclear disarmament. Most amazing are the dictatorships of the Middle East. They think that they could scare the American people with propaganda about the end of the world. The point they don’t get is that we Americans would absolutely prefer the end of the world to the loss of the American dream or the globalization of democracy. I would give my life if it led to the fall of one of those dictatorships. My death would not even be worth a dime compared to the elimination of one of those dictatorships. I have seldom contemplated higher stupidity than the one shown by the leaders of those dictatorships. Give me liberty or give me death! ~ C A Cafolini
What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air. (...) It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it. (...) Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. ~ Salman Rushdie
"It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts." -- Stendhal
Indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ~ Stendhal
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. ~ -Terry Pratchett
The Roman Catholic Church is dissolving day after day. Once upon a time they use to kill a useless pope and place him in a sealed lead coffin. Eventually they began to poison him slowly as he aged and the cardinalia could no longer use it. Today they began to allow him to resign. The latest retirement home is Castel Gandolfo, in Lazio, a few miles from Rome. Why couldn't they send the cardinalia there and have a massive retirement party. They could beautify everybody and thus promote the globalization of democracy before fascism is finished for keeps. ~ C A Cafolini
Some sick people are often so thirsty for freedom that they might try to enslave others in order to then play liberators. Some fill their children with insanity in order to later try to cure them. ~ C A Cafolini