Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.... This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace
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Mother Teresa
You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.
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Tom Hiddleston
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
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Amit Kalantri
A path well traveled may still yield secrets that only one person may discover.
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Anthony T. Hincks
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In 1778, Jefferson presented to the Virginia legislature "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, " in which he argued that all forms of government could degenerate into tyranny. The best way of preventing this, he wrote, is "to illuminate, as far as...
We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well--has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France...
Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.
Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort thinking about the meaning of life. We do not look inside ourselves enough to understand our strengths and weaknesses, and we do not look around...
I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government – communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial – but the degree of government....
