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- Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude
- A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
- Marjorie Holmes
- People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes
- Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
- Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
- It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
- Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
- The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
- Edwin Whipple
- The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
- John P. Grier
- The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.
- Eduard Sagalaev
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