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“The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”
― Tony Dungy, The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge

“Whenever you want to talk about people, it’s best to take a bird’s-eye view and see everything all at once—”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“if you had ever had a Double Double animal style then you might understand,”
― Kurt Schlichter, People's Republic

“Everything’s racist. You should know that by now.”
― Kurt Schlichter, People's Republic

“Good God, Dagny! Do you expect me to be afraid of an object like James?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Get busy with life’s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 3.14”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“I will stand alone. I will oppose tyranny at the threshold, though the fabric of liberty fall and I perish in its ruins.”
― Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

“An interest willing to suppress speech was an interest willing to put its own power ahead of democracy.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“Lincoln agreed: “By no act or complicity of mine shall the Republican party become a mere sucked egg, all shell and no principle in it.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“The New York Herald said there could be plans “to take the Capitol by violence.” The counting of the Electoral College votes, scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, might be stopped.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“Document your misses and your setbacks—don’t simply learn from them but teach from them.”
― Scott Jeffrey Miller, Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds

“There was no doubt, said Madison, that magisterial or executive “power, when it has attained a certain degree of energy and independence goes on generally to further degrees” and to become despotic and subvert liberty.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

“Winter is come. Beneath the barren sky The Elves are silent. But they do not die!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales, Part One

“I think much of this momentum stems from the fact that our successes, personally and professionally, are often because of the mentors we’ve had who have helped us navigate the obstacles and opportunities that pop up along our unique life journeys.”
― Scott Jeffrey Miller, Master Mentors Volume 2: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds