If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
That inescapable animal walks with me, Has followed me since the black womb held, Moves where I move, distorting my gesture, A caricature, a swollen shadow, A stupid clown of the spirit's motive, Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness, The secret life of belly and bone.
Delmore Schwartz
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison
I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
Albert Einstein
Writing and travel broaden your a-s if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.
John Burroughs
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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Kathleen McGowan, Little Worries
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 158
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Anakin Skywalker
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
Życie to pasmo nieustannych porażek i rozczarowań, ale tylko od Ciebie zależy jak zamienisz je w swój życiowy sukces.
Emil W.Wachol
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann
It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.
Katherine Mansfield
Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Herbert Marcuse
Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.
Jeff I. Richards
Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.
Warren Buffett
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
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