Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
Interpretation
Our actions create far-reaching effects on the world around us.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the interconnectedness of our actions and their consequences. Just as a stone creates ripples in water, each decision we make can influence others and create a chain reaction, emphasizing the importance of being mindful of our impact on the world and those around us.
In practice
In a lecture on social responsibility, one might reference this quote to emphasize the importance of considering how our actions affect others.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
Dying for dark β and the darker the Worse. Strange.
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
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