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Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard (1735)
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790(1706-1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
You do what you are…You’re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you’re good at. you don’t take for granted.
Morgan Freemanborn 1937Along Came a Spider
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
Only a crisis⁠—actual or perceived⁠—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), preface to the 1982 edition, p. ix
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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost1874–1963
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
Robert Frost1874–1963Steeple Bush (1947), “Directive”, l. 55
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost1874–1963Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)In context
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
Robert Frost1874–1963Mending Wall (1914)In context
Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
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