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- Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale E. Turner
- He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Hollow Men
- Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Hollow Men
- This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Hollow Men
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
- Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity
- To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704), French anthology "Et Toi Mon Coeur Pourquoi Bats-tu"
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- We have a right to speak our minds, not an obligation to do so.
- Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, The Economist, January 5, 2006
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