Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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It is, after all, unlikely that Rush Limbaugh always feels as jaunty and confident as he seems on the air, or that Howard Stern really is deeply fascinated by porn starlets every waking minute of the day. But a host’s persona is not the same as outright acting. For the most part, it’s probably more like the way we are all slightly different with some people than we are with others.
~ David Foster Wallace
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In the primitive state of human knowledge there is no regular division of intellectual labour. Every student cultivates all the sciences. As knowledge accrues, the sciences part off; and students devote themselves each to some one branch.
~ Auguste Comte
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~ John Steinbeck
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.
~ Richard Rorty
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy — but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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