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Quote of the day

I record the quotes I like here. Most of them are from The Economist.

2023-11-06

Nations have their ego, just like individuals. by James Joyce

2023-11-07

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. by Eleanor Roosevelt

2023-11-08

What hath night to do with sleep? by John Milton

2023-11-09

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. by Dylan Thomas

2023-11-10

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. by Kemal Ataturk

2023-11-11

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. by Lucretia Mott

2023-11-13

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. by Elsa Schiaparelli

2023-11-14

Great causes and little men go ill together. by Jawaharlal Nehru

2023-11-15

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. by Georgia O’Keeffe

2023-11-16

A man who makes troubles for others makes troubles for himself. by Chinua Achebe

2023-11-17

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. by Auguste Rodin

2023-11-18

A word after a word after a word is power. by Margaret Atwood

2023-11-20

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. by Robert F. Kennedy

2023-11-22

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. by John F. Kennedy

2023-11-23

The war against the imagination is the only one the capitalists have actually managed to win. by David Graeber

2023-11-24

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. by Baruch Spinoza

2023-12-5

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. by Nelson Mandela

2023-12-6

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. by Ludwig Wittgenstein

2023-12-9

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk. by John Milton

2023-12-11

True rigour is productive, being distinguished in this from another rigour which is purely formal and tiresome, casting a shadow over the problems it touches. by Émile Picard

2023-12-21

You mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat. by F.Scott Fitzgerald

2024-2-2

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. by Bertrand Russell

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