There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 101
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.
Jean Giono
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.
Robert H. Schuller
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Henny Youngman
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.
Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
John Grogan
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
Thiruvalluvar
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
Jeff Bridges
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Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle