A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.
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Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.
What's in a name? _The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.
To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori...
The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits.
Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?
Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory