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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God forbid that there should be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than for the things of righteousness, for fear of offending them.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Gospel Doctrine, p. 286Posted: 26 Feb 2012 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My ancestors are giving me “Bad Heir” days.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 10:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To borrowing and lending there is more than the passing of gold from the hands of one to the hands of another
Speaker: George S. ClasonSource: Richest Man in BabylonPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trick is to promote actual freedom – not just by giving people lots of choices (though that can help) but also by putting people in a good position to choose what would be best.
Source: NudgePosted: 06 Aug 2011 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I’m telling the perfect truth.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.Speaker: Bill HolmSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Speaker: Rachel CarsonPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Speaker: JAMES MATTHEW BARRIEPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If people stand around in a circle for long enough, they will eventually begin to dance.
Speaker: George CarlinSource: Napalm and Silly PuttyPosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Speaker: Joseph JoubertPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing it happened.
Speaker: Normon M. ThomasSource: Campaign Speech 1948Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:51 AMComments: 1 -
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!