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Euphemism

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying
-Bobbie Gentry, singer and songwriter (b. 27 Jul 1944)

Molder...

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." 

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Hourglass of life...

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul

Direct Proportion


Difficult Employee


Conquer self

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (20 Jul 1919-2008)

..the difference is

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- Charlotte Whitton

Share courage

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
 - Robert Louis Stevenson

Work with enemy

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013)

Aim for success?


Most truth

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
- Orson Scott Card


Swallow the evil

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."
~ Winston Churchill

Noble thought

My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
 -Leon Max Lederman, physicist, Nobel laureate (15 Jul 1922-2018)
 [He had to sell his Nobel medal to pay for his medical bills https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/10/4/17936626/leon-lederman-nobel-priz e-medical-bills ]

Estimates...

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." 

– Bill Gates

Can do it again

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow."
~ James A. Michener

building the new...

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
~ Socrates

Pictures of our...

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
- John Dryden