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Just something to think about...
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1. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
2. A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
3. When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half.
4. The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
5. Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
6. Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
7. We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job.
8. In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
9. Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
10. I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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Excerpt from "The Paradox of Our Age"
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space; we've done larger things, but not better things; we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we've split the atom, but not our prejudice; we write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes; but lower morals; more food but less appeasement.
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure and less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom.
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