THOUGHTS TO SELL BY EDITED BY LAWRENCE J. TUTTLE • PHOTO BY GERHARD GSCHWANDTNER


POWER


You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this


and you will find strength. MARCUS AURELIUS


It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.


JAMES A. BALDWIN Pessimism leads to weakness,


optimism to power. WILLIAM JAMES


Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by


the abuses of power. JAMES MADISON


I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than


in a thousand meaningful words. ANN HOOD


Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.


MICHAEL SHERMER


The United States is truly remark- able, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beauti- fully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don’t quite manage to


live up to them. JAY PARINI


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Leadership is the capacity to


translate vision into reality. WARREN BENNIS


Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation


meets reality. ELIYAHU GOLDRATT


We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is


to find reality. IRIS MURDOCH


Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. LES BROWN


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ENLIGHTENMENT Knowing others is wisdom; know-


ing yourself is enlightenment. LAO TZU


It’s wrong to look at what we call “Enlightenment values” as some fad of the 18th century. It’s deeply


rooted in ancient history. MATTHEW STEWART


REALITY


Spiritual life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be


experienced. SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN


Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomor- row’s reality.


MALALA YOUSAFZAI


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