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Re: Nice quotes...
An interesting selection. The following are some of my favorites; they are taken from the Appendix to my forthcoming "Philosopher at Large; Random Thoughts on Random Subjects."
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them. --Basuto proverb.
When a fellow says "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. --Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, 19th-20th Century American humorist and cartoonist.
Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Attributed to Mark Twain.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. --Isaac Newton.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. --John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (Lord Acton), British Historian, in a Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton (1877).
Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. --James Oberg, American NASA scientist.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. --Robert H. Jackson, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Communications Association v. Douods, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950).
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them. --Basuto proverb.
When a fellow says "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. --Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, 19th-20th Century American humorist and cartoonist.
Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Attributed to Mark Twain.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. --Isaac Newton.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. --John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (Lord Acton), British Historian, in a Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton (1877).
Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. --James Oberg, American NASA scientist.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. --Robert H. Jackson, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Communications Association v. Douods, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950).
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Re: Nice quotes...
Mark Twain's always a winner. 
"Those who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those that do" -- Brian Tracy (think it was him)
But here's my favorite:
"The task is not to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.”― Erwin Schrödinger
"Those who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those that do" -- Brian Tracy (think it was him)
But here's my favorite:
"The task is not to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.”― Erwin Schrödinger
Dan Rix, author of Entanglement, a YA Thriller about a world where every human is born with a soul mate, whom they meet on their 18th birthday...and the one boy who's the exception.
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