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“Eating another person's cake doesn't make it your birthday.��

�� Meditations for Modern Man: Wisdom from your Father by Michael W. Cook

"Hakuna Matata"
- Timone and Pumba
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"what a wonderful phrase..." - Timone and Pumba, Lion King

"You cannot learn from the successes or mistakes of History unless you are humble enough to realize you are no better than those who came before you."
Michael Cook

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.��

�� The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

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No happiness without order,
no order without authority.
No authority without unity,
no unity without compromise.��

�� Shadows of the Trees: Poems & Prose by Michael Cook

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.�� -Henry David Thoreau

“Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.�� �� Tony Robbins

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“If Opportunity doesn't Knock, Build a Door.�� ~ Milton Berle

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“He who doesn't have another moment to live, does not have anything more to hide.�� -Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), author, poet, editor, literary critic

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“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.�� -John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), UK author, philosopher, politician

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“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.��

This quote (and varients) is attributed to many prople from Albert Einstein to Herbert Hoover to Winston Churchill:

“The Wise Man Governs himself by the Reason of his Case, and because what he does is Best: Best, in a Moral and Prudent, not a Sinister Sense�� For as Men in Battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this World, are ever within the Reach of Temptation.��

-William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker leader Governor of Pennsylvania, and writer of Some Fruits of Solitude

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“When writing the story of your life, don't let someone else hold the pen.�� -attributed to Harley Davidson ad

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“�� in spite of the opinion of the many, and in spite of consequences�� injustice is always an evil and dishonor to him who acts unjustly? �� Nor when injured injure in return�� For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? �� Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any-one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him�� my first principle, that neither injury nor retaliation not warding off evil by evil is right…�� -Socrates (470-399 BC), Crito in the Dialogues of Plato

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.��

-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 �� 180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher

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“In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person: in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.��

- Epictetus (50-130 AD), Greek Stoic philosopher

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