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The years pass, and a lifetime seems to go by in an instant. I’m told that the young boy is a grandfather now. He has lived a life that should be an example for everyone who achieves greatness of how to be humble and unselfish and how to
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“Decisions without actions are pointless. Actions without decisions are reckless.”
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“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas of weakness.”
― Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
― Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”
― As a Man Thinketh
― As a Man Thinketh
Boyd & Beyond
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A reading group for the admirers of the ideas and legacy of John Boyd ranging from military and police to business and government professionals.
Q & A with Detective Ken Lang
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Dr. Ken Lang is a retired detective from the Baltimore County Police Department. During his tenure, he spent 15 years investigating violent crimes, in ...more
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