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Commentary © 2008  Richard J. Chandler & Bonnett Chandler

Advice from the Feminist writer and companion of Jean Paul Sartre...

"There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning – devotion to individuals, to groups or to causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work."

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Of all the "secrets of success" that people cite, variations of this one seem to me to be the most prevalent.

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."

- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

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An unusual guiding principle for living a life of service to others by Mark Twain.

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

- Mark Twain

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In a letter to his son, Lord Chesterfield gave this sage advice...

"You have still a surer way than this of rising, and which is wholly in your own power. Make yourself necessary."

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Is one's work life in business a "Plan B" substitute for more noble career pursuits?

"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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Many consider Peter Drucker to be the greatest
business philosophers of our time.

"Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk."

- Peter Drucker

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