Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

Hamid Karzai

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Ernest Hemingway

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward de Bono

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.

Henri Matisse

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sem indivíduos, vemos apenas números: mil mortos, cem mil mortos, «as mortes podem chegar a um milhão». Com as histórias individuais, as estatísticas transformam-se em pessoas - mas até isso é mentira, pois as pessoas continuam a sofrer em números que são, em si mesmos, entorpecedores e desprovidos de significado.

Neil Gaiman

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

Sir Hardy Amies

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Arnold H. Glasow

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

William Jennings Bryan

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Kim Carnes

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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