Wisdom in SpaceThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
-- William Arthur Ward
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To be intelligible is to be found out.
-- Oscar Wilde
The process of innovation is a process of failure.
-- Peter Senge
Learning primary care in a hospital is equivalent to learning forestry in a lumber yard.
-- Hilliard Jason
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
-- Hermann Goering (Nuremberg Trial)
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-- John Ruskin
It is hard to fail but worse never to have tried to succeed.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse
You can never be sure you have a correct problem definition, but don't ever stop trying to get one.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
-- James Russell Lowell
