The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Chauncey Wright

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Mimfa A. Gibson

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Gordon Gould

Vrijeme se vrti oko nas premda se ?ini kako smo mi podre?eni vrtnjama Vremena.

Jasna Horvat

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Jeff Hawkins

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Eldridge Cleaver

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Kim Campbell

Map age genes place of origin and love's lineaments. For mapped onto each body is love. Carthography of one's own country or the contours of a foreign land

Ingrid de Kok

When I look about me, I see everywhere hope, calm resolution, courage, enthusiasm to face all difficulties, to settle all problems. ... We do not anticipate, and we do not want, that any individuals should forget the land of their origin or their ancestors. Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, "Quoted in