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posted by Staff, on 31 july 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Success)

I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.

Michael Jordan

posted by Staff, on 31 july 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Jonathan Swift

posted by Staff, on 30 july 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)

I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."

John Lennon

posted by Staff, on 30 july 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

Oskar Schindler

posted by Staff, on 29 july 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Philosophy)

All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward: this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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