You can find it ---> here.This is my entry to the 55 word creative writing contest by @aggroed.
Cliff Jump:
From the cliff fence he watches as they stream across the edge: some dauntless, legs whirling, cartoonlike; some teetering on the brink, eyes closed and noses held. Clutching charts, waving flags, armed with faith alone. Will the fickle sea claim them? Or raise them up again, to drive home, whooping; lemmings in Lamborghinis?
This flash fiction does not constitute advice and should not be relied upon as the basis for any decisions. If cliff jumping is your thing, do your due diligence and seek professional advice.
Sea levels can go down as well as up. Don't jump in carrying anything you can’t afford to lose. Have a nice swim.
Thanks for reading.
I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impel. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
source: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking quotes
source: google
The Four Freedoms Awards are presented to men and women whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to those principles which President Roosevelt proclaimed in his historic speech to Congress on January 6, 1941, as essential to democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.
The Roosevelt Institute has awarded the Four Freedoms Medals to some of the most distinguished Americans and world citizens of our time, including Presidents Truman, Carter, and Clinton; H.R.H. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands; Nelson Mandela; J. William Fulbright; Arthur Miller; and Desmond Tutu. The Awards are presented in New York City every other year; international awards are given by the Roosevelt Stichting of the Netherlands on alternate years.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
speak softly, and carry a big stick
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Apostolicae Sedis Legatus Civitatum Foederatarum
Reimagine the rules
Qui plantavit curabit
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On August 2, 2011, The Trust for Public Land joined city and state officials to cut the ribbon on this new park. In Fall 2012, the FDR Four Freedoms Park, designed by the great 20th century architect Louis Kahn, will open on an adjacent site.
Happy Days Are Here Again – 1932 slogan by Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Don't swap horses in midstream – 1944 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Franklin Roosevelt. The slogan was also used by Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 election.
We are going to win this war and the peace that follows – 1944 campaign slogan in the midst of World War II by Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public works projects, and financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. These programs included support for farmers, the unemployed, youth, and the elderly, as well as new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and changes to the monetary system. Most programs were enacted at different stages between 1933-38, though some later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders, most during the first term of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs focused on what historians refer to as the "3 Rs", Relief, Recovery, and Reform: relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.
freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear
Nailing Jelly To The Wall
Weasel Words
Square Deal
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.
source: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms.htm
freedom of speech freedom of worship freedom from want freedom from fear
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor - anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
Source: FDR - Four Freedoms Park Monument.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
source: FDR famous quotations
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Source: Theodore Roosevelt famous quotes
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I'd like to announce my retirement from the male modeling profession.
Source: Zoolander
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
source: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/572105
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,
Stephen Hawking quotes
source: google
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln quotes.
source: Google search
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln quotes.
source: Google search
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln quotes.
source: Google search
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Where there is love there is life.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
--- Ghandi ---