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Quotation: Victory

Posted in quotations on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

–Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

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Quotation: Mistakes

Posted in quotations on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

–Napoleon Bonaparte

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Conversion

Posted in quotations, tagged , , on May 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I am puzzled by something.
I don’t understand that why, because I am born an American and have ancestors coming from Europe (although my family has been on this continent coming up on 400 years), I am considered as a prime target for conversion away from my beliefs. I don’t know why people see me as [...]

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Quotation: Glory and Obscurity

Posted in quotations on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

–Napoleon Bonaparte

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The Only Constant Is Change

Posted in musing, tagged on May 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Whenever I get discouraged, I would be well to remember what is so aptly put in the 5 Oct 2006 article over at HowToLive.org.
We are constantly regenerating, and who we are literally changes from one moment to the next.
Is the me I am right now where I would have wanted to be a minute ago? [...]

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Quotation: Life and Death

Posted in quotations on May 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

–Robert Heinlein

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Self-starting

Posted in musing, tagged on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation lately. An article (Psychology Today: You 2.0) I came across recently got me thinking about getting to doing the unpleasant things.
In Your World Or You I was once again reminded about how complaining and venting really get me nowhere. I think I’ve made great strides in this lately, [...]

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