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- All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
- A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
- A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
- Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
- Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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