Baden Powell Quotes
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
Baden Powell
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
Radhanath Swami
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All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
P. J. O'Rourke
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As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
Baden Powell