Famous Quotes

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Charles M. Schwab:

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Carl Jung:

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Marvin Minsky:

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

Jack Kerouac, "On the Road":

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003:

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Thomas Carlyle:

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass:

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Sergei Koroljov:

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.
(The way to the stars is open.)

Joseph Stalin:

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

CIA Manual:

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."

Walter Bagehot:

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Seneca:

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Albert Camus:

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799:

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.