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“Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!”

Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...

“Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital - people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”

People World Needs Humans Ideas Philosophy Ability Numbers Destiny Huge Capable Innovation West Dues Superiors Exploration Breeding Demographics Huge Numbers

Author:Ilana Mercer

“There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.”

Ifs Philosophy Helping Ability Doubt Succeed

Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy

“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.”

Thinking Men Needs Philosophy Age Difficult Goal Term Ability Absence Vanity Aspiration Denied Academic Malady Irreligion Wrong Thinking

Author:Krishnananda Saraswati

“The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.”

Men Philosophy Desire Three Ability Consciousness Ridiculous Sufficient Great Men Three Things Embarrassment Exhibits

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”