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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.: Claude Levi-Strauss
In false quarrels there is no true valor.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.: C. C. Colton
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.: William A. Foster
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.: South
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.: D. March
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

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