“Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man and let history make its own judgments”
Zefram Levar Cochrane
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Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
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Posted on October 9, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country”
- Abraham Lincoln
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Posted on October 6, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.“
- Martin Luther King
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. “
- Former Vice President Dan Quayle trying to quote the United Negro College Fund slogan “The mind is a terrible thing to waste”
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Posted on September 21, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
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Posted on September 13, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” - George Orwell
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Posted on September 6, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.“ [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
- Thomas Paine
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“
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