"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

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“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”

“I just want always to be a little boy and have fun.”

“Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.”

“Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!”

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

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"While I had enjoyed other jobs, I loved command. I had been in a command position for ten of the previous twenty-six years. But each new position was initially daunting. As I suspect many leaders feel…"

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Music1954

#leadership

"Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never hav…"

— Charlton Ogburn

Literature1911–1998

#life

"Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. Abraxas does not take exception to any of your thoughts, any of your dreams. Never forget that. …"

— Hermann Hesse

Literature1861–1948

#hope

"Amarantine is an ancient word, which means eternity. The poets describe an undying flower with that word, and I fell in love with that idea ... For me that word suited rhythmically to the refrain of t…"

— Enya

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