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“All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.”

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Desire-Joseph Mercier, an enigmatic historical figure, was born on November 21, 1851, and passed away on January 23, 1926. His life and contributions are shrouded in mystery due to limited available information. more

“It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects our lifestyle, so that if we don’t believe that we can help ourselves, we probably cannot. If we don’t believe that positive information is useful to our health and well being, it probably won’t be.”

Ifs Believe Wells Helping Belief Effects Information Don't Believe Lifestyle Well Being Behave Belief Systems

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.”

People Way Literature Secret Power Arrangements Maintaining Secret Love

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.”

Earth Universe Space Saws Planets Moon Tests Accidents Divinity Pilots Floating Planet Earth Pragmatic Vastness Vastness Of Space

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.”

“In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.”

Men World War Talking Sitting Army Starting Boxes Chains Witness War Of The Worlds Telephones Commanders

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.”

Men War Would Be Numbers Equal Supreme Bombs Etc Shells

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.”

Firsts Fighting Nations Kings Army Sane Royal Demented

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

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