David p mikkelson

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The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Dwight David Eisenhower

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

David Letterman

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

David Hume

There is a good side to every situation.

David Schwartz

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Henry David Thoreau

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight David Eisenhower

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight David Eisenhower
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