Archive for June, 2008

Bill Vaughn on Age

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.

- Bill Vaughn

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Albert Einstein on Humor

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

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Bruce Feirstein on Science

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

- Bruce Feirstein

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Winston Churchill on Business

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

- Winston Churchill

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Thomas Szasz on Society

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

- Thomas Szasz

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Katarina Witt on Sports

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

- Katarina Witt

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Alfred de Musset on Poetry

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

- Alfred de Musset

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William Shakespeare on Imagination

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

- William Shakespeare

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Gregory Clark on War

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

- Gregory Clark

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Kahlil Gibran on Wisdom

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

- Kahlil Gibran

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