| On
Immortality & Conduct |
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| Steven
Mallory on Howard Roark, in "Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. |
| "I
often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't
mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean that he won't die some day. But
he's living it. I think he is what the concept really means. You know how
people long to be eternal, but they die with every day that passes. When
you meet them, they're not what you met last. In any one given hour, they
kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict -
and they call it growth. At the end, there's nothing left, nothing unrevered
or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of
adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence
which they have never held for a single moment? But Howard - one can imagine
him existing forever" |
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| Sherlock
Holmes in "The Greek Interpreter" |
| "I
cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician
all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's
self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers." |
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| Old
Chinese saying |
| Better
to light a candle than to curse the darkness. |
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| Samuel
Silver |
| To
belittle, is to be little |
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| Colette
|
| You
will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. |
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| Walt
Disney |
| It's
kind of fun to do the impossible. |
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Children
| Miscellaneous:
6, 5, 4,
3, 2, 1
| Progress & Learning 2, 1
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