quotes
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Everyone is Entitled
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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David Goggins on Weaknesses
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If you are on the hunt for your 100 percent you should catalog your weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Don’t ignore them. Be prepared for them, because in any endurance event, in any high-stress environment, your weaknesses will surface like bad karma, build in volume, and overwhelm you. Unless you get ahead of them first. David Goggins,…
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The Right Thing
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I finally finished the book. Highly recommended.
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Maya Angelou
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All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market. – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Don’t Stop
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“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”Imogen Cunningham
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Belief
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you…Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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Edward Weston
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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
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Howard Thurman
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Motivation
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TRUTH
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The great glory and strength of pluralism is that it compels the holder of any belief to measure its truthfulness against alternative interpretations. The great hazard of pluralism is the faulty deduction, in the name of tolerance, that all beliefs can be equally true. ~Deliver Us From Evil, Ravi Zacharias Taken during a photowalk with…
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Prove What Can’t Be by Not Seeing It
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When G. K. Chesterton was arguing against a rationalist who denied miracles on the ground that experience is against it, he cited this: There was a great Irish Rationalist of this school who, when he was told that a witness had seen him commit a murder, said he could bring a hundred witnesses who had…
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Management vs. Leadership
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Management means control. Leadership means release, and good managers know it.
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Vision
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ~Jonathan Swift
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Ask
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I had become deeply disturbed by many of my classes in which we were no longer able to ask whether or not there is a God. A student who is never challenged to ask such questions may be a student divorced from the possiblity that a God exists, and that in knowing a loving God,…
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Iron Chef vs. Backdraft
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Backdraft, one of my favorite movies, was on TV tonight. Even though I’ve seen this movie many ti…
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Killing “curly” quotes
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On Wordpress 1.2, I did this to remove curly quotes. For 1.5, the stuff you need to comment out i…
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Quotes from my free calendar
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I got this calendar full of quotations in different languages from my aunt. Here were some quotes for March and April that I thought were cool (well, actually, I can’t read the others): Win with humility, lose with grace (Japanese proverb) Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will…