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«If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Leadership,
Longing,
Motivation
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«Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.»
«CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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addicted, adj, assign, assigning, assigns, carnivorous, devouring, heirs, timorous, vegetarian
«The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assign, date, dated, December, incarnation, Mithra, Nativity, Nativity of Christ, Persian, Persians, savior, solstice, the Incarnation, The Night of the, The Persians, winter solstice
«Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...»
«Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.»
«As You assign me, so I take to Your service.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
assign
«If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Childhood,
Evolution,
Maturity,
Religion
| Keywords:
acquisition, assign, attempts, parallel, pass through
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