Two Thoughts (18 - 24 February)

Sunday, 18 February

Two thoughts from Alfred Russel Wallace

“Man alone is capable of purposeful non-organic evolution; he makes tools.”

"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."

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Monday, 19 February

Two thoughts from Frank Tyger

“Your future depends on many things,

but mostly on you.”

“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”

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Tuesday, 20 February

Two thoughts from Sherman Finesilver

"Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs."

"You've failed many times...You fell down the first time you tried to walk."

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Wednesday, 21 February

Two thoughts from Herbert Kaufman

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

"Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors."

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Thursday, 22 February

Two thoughts from Kenneth Clark

"Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable."

"We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs."

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Friday, 23 February

Two thoughts from Maxwell Perkins

“You have to throw yourself away when you write.”

“Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.”

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Saturday, 24 February

Two thoughts from John Berger

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."

“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past.”

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