Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on risk

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein1879–1955