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Category: Quotations

Posted on April 7, 2020

“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

“We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.”—Bob Ross, American painter, 1942-1995

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

“May you live in interesting times.”—Chinese (attributed) proverb

Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020

“When fools make mistakes they lay the blame on Providence.”—Irish proverb

Posted on March 19, 2020

“The cautious seldom err.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

“None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”—Oliver Cromwell, English statesman, 1599-1658

Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020

“In America, public opinion is the leader.”—Frances Perkins, US Secretary of Labor, 1880-1965

Posted on March 11, 2020

“Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

“Evolution is a lottery where we only see the winning tickets.”—Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author, 1952—.

Posted on February 23, 2020

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

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