I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.
There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
Jos
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, caf?s full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
Often you have to rely on intuition.
Bill Gates
We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
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The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
Paul Gauguin
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
David Lloyd George
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
J. Paul Getty
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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