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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates470–399 BC
This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. I
All praise is to Allah, I’ll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I’d fight him too.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren Buffettborn 1930
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus1913–1960Return to Tipasa (1954)
In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey1918–2009
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine1737–1809“The Crisis” (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776), no. 1, in Moncure D. Conway, ed., The Writings of Thomas Paine (1894), vol. 1, p. 170.
A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution (2 January 1961)
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I’m not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone1899–1947
- Guns