Once an Eagle
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Read between January 10 - January 19, 2020
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Albert Schweitzer advised: “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
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Inflexibility—it was the worst human failing: you could learn to check impetuosity, you could overcome fear through confidence and laziness through discipline, but rigidity of mind allowed for no antidote. It carried the seeds of its own destruction.
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Experience was valuable only if one imbued it with meaning, drew from it purposeful conclusions.
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That was how life was, perhaps: you fought your bravest battles unapplauded and alone.
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Too much imagination was the death of the commander.
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The essence of leadership was an unerring ability to winnow the essential from the trivial or extraneous.
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“That’s the whole challenge of life—to act with honor and hope and generosity, no matter what you’ve drawn. You can’t help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can—and you should—try to pass the days between as a good man