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- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus of Lydia
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Balthasar Gracian
- A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
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- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
- Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance
- Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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