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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
  othing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -- W. W. Zeige...
• If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution.
  The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work. -- Mary Henle...
• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
  Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -- John W. Gardne...
• When people are starving, life is no longer meaningless. -- John Gardne
• And that's another goal for the Long John Silver Impersonators!
• Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate
  Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait....
• In the broad and final sense all institutions are educational in the sense that they operate to form the attitudes, dispositions, abilities and disabilities that constitute a concrete personality.
  ..Whether this educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic way of life....
• My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.
  -- Grendel, by John Gardne...
• My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.
  -- "Grendel", by John Gardne...