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- The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time win we were happy.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- You can only predict things after they've happened.
- Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994)
- I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
- C. W. Leadbeater
- The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
- Roberta Wohlstetter
- The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
- Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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