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Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
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The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.
FTFrank Tyger
- Entertainment
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius551–479 BC
Every individual…generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 488-489.In context
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he’ll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he’ll be able to feel.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
Armand Hammer1898–1990
- Luck
- Work
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Interview for Press Association (3 May 1989)
Without losers, where would the winners be?
Casey Stengel1890–1975The Gospel According to Casey (1992), ed. Berkow & Kaplan, St. Martin’s Press, p. 19, as cited in The Executive’s Book of Quotations (1994), ed. Martin & Moskin, Oxford University Press, p. 299
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allenborn 1935
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830), Bk. V, Ch. 1
- Art
- Talking
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321