Favourite quotes

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

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The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

We think in generalities, but we live in details. (Alfred North Whitehead)

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. Napoleon Hill

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde

If you have to tell people that you are powerful, then you aren't.

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"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." [Anton Chekhov]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Voltaire)

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. (Chinese Proverb)

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. (Mark Twain)

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. (Niels Bohr)

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. (T. H. White)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)