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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Knowledge and wisdom demand their payments.

2020 wasn't the year to get everything we ever wanted, it was the year to appreciate everything we already have.

Leaders are readers.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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 them 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Correlation does not imply causation.

Let's Another Decoration Day finds us adding to the number of graves that will be decorated in the future years. Men are stupid.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank G*d that such men lived.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Now I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds.

If your happiness depends on something you can lose, you'll spend your entire life afraid of losing it.

Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.

An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

When a friend makes a mistake, the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake.

Let's not make our mistakes in a hurry.

When you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Care what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner.

Your excuse account is overdrawn.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Your opinion of my IQ, doesnt interest me in the least.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.

He no longer had judgement about anything or anyone.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

It's good to be 99% sure, that 1% sucks doesnt it.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this).

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian, I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground.

I never dreamed of success. I worked for it.

Developers want to increase the value of the company/organization, and security wants to protect the existing value of the company/organization.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

He could have added fortune and fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.

Our deepest fear, the passage goes, 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 G*d. Your playing small does not serve the world. ... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.

They all fall to hard ball.

For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

It's complicated. I think I can keep up.

And you are mistaken if you think you're going to push me around. I hated bullies on the playground when I was six, I tolerate them no better on the bench in my forties.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I like to pay taxes, with them, I buy civilization.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

A man with experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

Be formless. Be shapeless. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Organization's code will reflect the team's communication structure.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.

Find a beautiful place and just get lost.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Be sober, be viglant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure, you're forced to find out what what part did not work. But in success you believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

You're never wrong to do the right thing.

The only easy day was yesterday.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I am patient. -Exodus 34:5-6

We judge ourseleves by our best intentions and most noble deeds but we will be judged by our worst act.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

He shows love to the foreigners living among you. -Deuteronomy 10:18

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I am not young enough to know everything.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Veni Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Strong people don't put others down, they pull others up.

Raise no more devils than you can lay.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I do not hit. It hits all by itself.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Good leadership today means listening more, and encouraging feedback instead of discouraging it.

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Tho much is taken, much abides. And tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Ye are my witness, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no G*d formed, neither shall there be after Me.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.

In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few.

A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

You can't calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself, the storm will pass.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

One shot bang isnt sustainable, changes to be sustainable need to be done a little at a time. Must change habits.

Strong Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no G*d formed, neither shall there be after me.

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of G*d, I will.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Fight the bullies, to protect the powerless, to make sure that the people without a voice have a voice.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.

A man with a good plan violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

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