13.2 Quotations from the Internet

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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
- Marvin J. Ashton

"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."
– Bible

"The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else."
– Preston Bradley

"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you."
– Claude M. Bristol

"If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time."
– Rev. Michael Burry

"It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived."
– Ralph Charell

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
– Charles Dudley

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
– Albert Einstein

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
– Benjamin Franklin

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."
– Buckminster Fuller

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."
– Althea Gibson

"I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today."
– Jessie Hill

"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
– Quincy Jones

"God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs."
– Spencer W. Kimball

"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
– Max Lerner

"The best answer to the question, ‘What is the most effective method of teaching?’ is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, ‘Students teaching other students.’"
– McKeachie, W. J., Pintrich, P. R., Lin, Y., & Smith, D. A. (1986). Teaching and learning in the college classroom: A review of the research literature. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."
– Maxwell Maltz

"As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable."
– George Lucas, producer of the Star Wars movies. In Edutopia, Spring 2001, p. 2.

"I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that."
– Paul McCartney 

"We do not exist for ourselves..."
– Thomas Merton

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
– M. Scott Peck

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
– Irish Proverb 

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.:
– George Shinn <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_shinn_george.html>

"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it."
– W. Clement Stone

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."
– Brian Tracy <http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_tracy_brian.html>

"We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
– Jeff Warner

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