The Sail...

"Amid the blue haze of the ocean

A sail is passing, white and frail.

What do you seek in a far country?

What have you left at home, lone sail?

The billows play, the breezes whistle,

And rhythmically creaks the mast.

Alas, you seek no happy future,

Nor do you flee a happy past.

Below the mirrored azure brightens,

Above the golden rays increase —

But you, wild rover, pray for tempests

As if in tempests there was peace!"

Mikhail Lermonov

Translated by Vladimir Nabokov

How come ?

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“How come we can invent better ways to kill

each other, but not one to preserve peace!”

Abhijit Naskar

Man...

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“All war is a symptom of man's

failure as a thinking animal.”

John Steinbeck

Education today

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Nothing more to be said.

First flight...

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"With all the knowledge and skill acquired

in thousands of flights in the last ten years,

I would hardly think today of making my

first flight on a strange machine in a twenty

seven mile wind, even if I knew that the

machine had already been flown and was

safe."

Orville Wright

I love those

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can

gather strength from distress, and grow brave

by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds

to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and

whose conscience approves their conduct,

will pursue their principles unto death."

Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest rewards...

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“The greatest rewards come from within…

through imagination, courage, faith and

action.”

Michael ONeill

Needs correction?

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"If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is

something in your mental attitude that needs

correction."

Napoleon Hill

The noble minded

"The noble minded act before speak,

then they speak according to their actions.”

Confucius

The Analects