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What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Virtue
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881
- Change
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936“Orthodoxy” (1908), Chapter VII: The Eternal Revolution
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Post-war years (1945–1955)
Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Non-Violence in Peace and War p. 254 (1948)
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong1930–2012
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. And when I feel like saying something, I just say it.
Madonnaborn 1958At Todomusica.org