Quotation Collection

After all, what would life be without fighting, I should like to know? From the cradle to the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the business, the real, highest, honestest business of every son of man. Every one who is worth his salt has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself or spiritual wickedness in high places, or Russians, or Border-ruffians, or Bill, Tom, or Harry, who will not let him live his life in quiet till he has thrashed them.

It is no good for Quakers, or any other body of men, to uplift their voices against fighting. Human nature is too strong for them, and they don't follow their own precepts. Every soul of them is doing his own piece of fighting, somehow and somewhere. The world might be a better world without fighting, for anything I know, but it wouldn't be our world; and therefore I am dead against crying peace when there is no peace, and isn't meant to be. I’m as sorry as any man to see folk fighting the wrong people and the wrong things, but I’d a deal sooner see them doing that, than that they should have no fight in them. Thomas Hughes

• violence

There's an old saying in the public opinion business: we can't tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about. Doug Henwood

• advertising

Once you possess the power to circumvent limitations, to control things most people consider immutable, you're liberated from the tyranny of events. You're no longer an observer; you're in command. You've become a hacker. John Walker

• circumstance

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Opportunities are merely problems that promise to pay off after sufficient work. John Walker

• work
• problems
• opportunity

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Eating is important; it's one of very few things in life that isn't optional. If you don't eat, you die. If you eat too much for too long, you die. You wouldn't consider for a moment investing in a company that had no budgets, where everybody said, "We just spend whatever we feel like from day to day, and hope it will all work out in the long run." Not only would such a business be prone to bankruptcy, its managers would have no way of knowing where the money was going; there'd be no way to measure actual performance against goals to discover where problems lay. No, only a fool would risk his money on such a venture.

Yet by trying to "wing it" with regard to what you eat, to balance your long term calorie intake meal by meal, making every decision on the spur of the moment, you're placing something even more precious than your money, your own health, in the hands of a process you know inevitably leads to serious trouble. John Walker

• diet
• food
• health

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Every day you see plenty of fat people and lots of old people, but have you noticed how few old, fat people you see? John Walker

• age
• health
• diet
• food

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Mike Murdock

• habit
• self improvement
• change

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations. Anonymous

• advertising