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Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
Henry Spencerborn 1955
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936
I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Andy Warhol1928–1987
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
Diane Ackermanborn 1948Often credited to Samuel Adams
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to turn out the lights.
George Burns1896–1996
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
John Updike1932–2009
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881The Wondrous Tale of Alroy pt. 10, ch. 17
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon1769–1821Speaking about troubles in the invasions of Russia (10 December 1812), as recorded by Abbé du Pradt, and quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Vol. 3 (1842) by
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung1875–1961Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 49
The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu1689–1762“To a Lady Making Love”
Any new system is worth trying when your luck is bad.
Heywood Broun1888–1939
- Luck
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.
Marcus Aurelius121–180
- Change
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Change
- Time
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context