“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Charles George Gordon
― Charles George Gordon
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