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“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
― Wizard's First Rule
― Wizard's First Rule
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”
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“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”
― The Rape of Lucrece
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”
― The Rape of Lucrece
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― State of Fear
― State of Fear
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