Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier
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Paul Tournier (May 12, 1898 – October 7, 1986) was a Swiss physician and author who had acquired a worldwide audience for his work in pastoral counseling. His ideas had a significant impact on the spiritual and psychosocial aspects of routine patient care, and he has been called the twentieth century’s most famous Christian physician. |
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
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His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle’s philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as « a river of gold »), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived. |
Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed « The Wizard of Menlo Park » (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. |
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband’s death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women. |
To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
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Mary Pettibone Poole is the author of book of Epigrams with title, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, published in 1938. The book is an aphorism and apothegms-based. Many of the Epigrams were devised by Mary during her experimentation with hallucinogenic substances. Some of the contexts were inspired by her personal life experiences, sexual encounters and struggle with Crohn’s disease. The book was banned in the USSR during 1940’s as it was considered to promote religious and sexual freedoms, incompatible with socialism. |