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"Listen to many, speak to a few"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"The highest form of vanity is love of fame"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"
Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer
"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention"
Tom Peters, Businessman
"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility"
E. F. Schumacher, Economist
"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are"
Plato, Philosopher
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self"
Mainbocher, Designer
"Silence is better than unmeaning words"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"
Edward Young, Poet
"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"
Robin Williams, Comedian
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined"
Thomas Szasz, Psychologist
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising"
Norman Douglas, Writer
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon"
Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher
"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world"
John Le Carre, Author
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Man is a child of his environment"
Shinichi Suzuki, Musician
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation"
Edward R. Murrow, Journalist
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond, that 100 wise men can not get out"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"
Mark Twain, Author
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"Success and failure are equally disastrous"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed"
Edward Young, Poet
"There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors"
Jim Morrison, Musician
"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
Ani DiFranco, Musician
"You can't fatten the pig on market day"
John Howard, Statesman
"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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