Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.Steven Pinker
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.Steven Pinker
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?Steven Pinker
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream,and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines,he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.Ralph Waldo Emerson
