If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself…. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. – Mao Zedong [Tse-tung] (1893 – 1976): Speech, July 1937, Yanan [Yenan], China More »
It’s one thing to have talent. It’s another to figure out how to use it. – Roger Miller (1936 – 92) More »
The liberty of the individual must be limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. – John Stuart Mill (1806 – 73): On Liberty More »
A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits. – Richard (Milhous) Nixon (1913 – 94) More »
Thunder only happens when it’s raining. – Stevie Nicks (1948 – ) “Fleetwood Mac”: Dreams More »
Focus on remedies, not faults. – Jack (William) Nicklaus (1940 – ) More »
When I was told that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, I replied ‘Still?’ – Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer-) Churchill (1874 – 1965) More »
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. – Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer-) Churchill (1874 – 1965) More »
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. – Philip (Dormer) Stanhope， 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694 – 1773): Letter to His Son / If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. More »
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959) More »
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