When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
I get my ideas from listening from within.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Education isn't play - and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
