#led

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#black #blood #cannot #colombia #die

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ↗

— Aristotle

#called #character #effective #may #means

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #good #must #ruled #ruler

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#children #college #designed #enrolled #enter

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #dancing #day #diligently #knowledge

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

Research is creating new knowledge. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#knowledge #new #new knowledge #research

But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been. ↗

— Will Arnett

#along #always #been #day #end

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. ↗

— Raymond Aron

#foreknowledge #future #makes #manipulate #possible