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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
- Shimon Peres (1923 - )
- I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
- It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
- Amelia Burr
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
- Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
- Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
- Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
- I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
- Halifax
- Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
- Welsh Proverb
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
- Sidney J. Harris
- Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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