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“Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it”
- Nietzsche
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
“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
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie
“In the last half billion years, earth has lost, four times, its polar caps: no ice at the North Pole and none at the South Pole. And, four times, the polar caps were reconstituted. Man did not exist then, only the so-called cosmic rays, discovered by mankind in the early twentieth century. The last cosmic ice age started 50 million years ago when we entered into one of the galaxy arms.”
Dr. Antonino Zichichi, President of the World Federation of Scientists
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
- Albert Einstein
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“To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.”
- Sydney Smith
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“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
- Charles de Gaulle
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Used effectively, quotations can provide important pieces of evidence and lend fresh voices and perspectives to an idea. They often convey an important, witty idea or thought relevant to a conversation or topic in a succinct and memorable way. They are often used to support, oppose or present an entirely different view of a situation and (used appropriately) they can bolster one’s credentials as to being knowledgeable. Or as Churchill once said “t is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations”. See our Quotations from around the world. CLICK HERE
“Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.”
Bertrand Russell, A Liberal Decalogue (1951)
Note:
This Liberal Decalogue first appeared at the end of the article “The best answer to fanaticism: Liberalism” in the New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951). It was then included in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 3, 1944-1967.
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
- Dale Carnegie
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“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
- Dale Carnegie
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“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage”
- Confucius
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King Jnr
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‘We are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last 24 hours; we are not the best informed as to the events of the last 60 centuries.’
- Will Durant
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“What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it”
- Hegel
“If we want everything to stay as it is, everything will have to change”
- Guiseppe di Lampedusa
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Used effectively, quotations can provide important pieces of evidence and lend fresh voices and perspectives to an idea. They often convey an important, witty idea or thought relevant to a conversation or topic in a succinct and memorable way. They are often used to support, oppose or present an entirely different view of a situation and (used appropriately) they can bolster one’s credentials as to being knowledgeable. Or as Churchill once said “t is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations”! See our Quotations from around the world. CLICK HERE
“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”
- Michael Crichton
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
- Douglas Adams
“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.”
- Francis of Assisi (1181 – 1226)
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‘He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!
- Gottfried Benn
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
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“He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
-Buddhist Quote
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