Famous Quotes Update

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John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Richard Adams


The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Seneca


Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

John Fellows Akers


After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Eric Butterworth


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Dag Hammarskjld


It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Orville Wright


No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

Henry David Thoreau


It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about

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