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Post by eos on Nov 17, 2012 12:13:19 GMT -5
Our global civilisation is clearly on the edge of failure and the most important task it faces, preserving the lives and well-being of its citizens and the future habitability of the planet. But if we're willing to live with the growing likelihood of nuclear war shouldn't we also been willing to explore vigorously every possible means to prevent nuclear war. Shouldn't we consider in every nation major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental restructuring of economic political social and religious institutions. We've reached a point where there can be no more special interests or special cases, nuclear arms threaten every person on the Earth. Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labelled impractical or contrary to human nature, as if nuclear war were practical or as if there's only one human nature. But fundamental changes can clearly be made, we're surrounded by them. In the last two centuries abject slavery which was with us for thousands of years has almost entirely been eliminated in a stirring worldwide revolution. Women, systematically mistreated for millennia are gradually gaining the political and economic power traditionally denied them and some wars of aggression have recently been stopped or curtailed because of a revulsion felt by the people in the aggressor nations. The old appeals to racial sexual religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. Carl Sagan ~ Who Speaks for Earth Episode 13 of Cosmos
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2013 0:11:48 GMT -5
Belief creates the actual fact.
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Apr 14, 2013 6:30:18 GMT -5
It is how you perceive it to be.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2013 0:03:12 GMT -5
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 16, 2013 8:57:37 GMT -5
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 16, 2013 8:58:49 GMT -5
“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2013 23:42:04 GMT -5
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2013 23:43:48 GMT -5
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 22, 2013 8:59:58 GMT -5
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard
Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. —Benjamin Franklin
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 22, 2013 9:05:12 GMT -5
:'(So darn true--> A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King
Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 22, 2013 9:09:26 GMT -5
"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds." — Benjamin Disraeli
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 22, 2013 9:10:49 GMT -5
"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." — Beverly Sills
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Post by heart2heart on Apr 22, 2013 9:19:53 GMT -5
"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right." — Ezra Taft Benson
"Humility is royalty without a crown." — Spencer W. Kimball
"[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes" — Spencer W. Kimball
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Post by jackthelad on Apr 22, 2013 9:29:50 GMT -5
Ich bin ein Berliner. The late American president J F Kennedy.
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Post by eos on Apr 28, 2013 9:53:40 GMT -5
““There are going to be days when you won’t have the energy or drive to get out of bed. There are going to be days when you’re going to want to give up – give up on love, life, or school. The thing is, you’re not allowed to give up. You were given a life and you’re supposed to live it. The truth is the seventy or eighty years that you’re given isn’t long enough to do the things you’re supposed to do. Sure, you’re gonna hit a few bumps along the way, but you’ve got to pick yourself up and move on. Life is unpredictable and things might not always work out the way you want them to, but that’s no reason to give up. You’re here for a reason and someday when you’re not expecting it, you’re going to discover your reason for being here. And when that does happen, your life will never be the same again
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Post by wfm on Aug 20, 2013 17:01:03 GMT -5
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
"Aristotle"
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Post by wfm on Aug 22, 2013 8:11:57 GMT -5
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
"John F. Kennedy"
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Post by wfm on Aug 24, 2013 7:20:38 GMT -5
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
"Winston Churchill"
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Post by wfm on Aug 24, 2013 7:22:13 GMT -5
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
"Albert Einstein"
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Post by wfm on Aug 28, 2013 6:44:00 GMT -5
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."George Washington Carver"
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