The Plot Of the Indifferent

[Stryke]

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Stryke]

“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment...”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

[Stryke]

All adversarial activities are won by those setting the agenda

Angelo Dundee

[Kuma-de]

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

[Stryke]

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

[Kuma-de]

God and Soldier, we alike adore
When on the brink of danger, not before
The danger past, both are alike requited
God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted.

– Anon

[jorvik]

Quote
Take the world lightly, and your spirit will not be burdened. Consider everything minor, and your mind will not be confused. Regard death and life as equal, and your heart will not be afraid.
–Huainanzi

[Kuma-de]

[Kuma-de]

[Otto]

"He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass." - Howard Kendal

[jorvik]

When reading through some stuff about investing I came upon this.really describes the military industrial complex, the banksters and their horrible ways

as Mark Antony said in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”:
“…You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; and being men, it will inflame you, it will make you mad”.

nobody beats Shakesperaer for one liners..except maybe the Bible

[Kuma-de]

"Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
"The Strenuous Life"

Theodore Roosevelt

[Stryke]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

[Kuma-de]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[Kuma-de]

"Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them."

Horace Porter, Brevet Brigadier General, U.S.A., The Surrender at Appomattox Court House