Useful quotations collected by @richardrathe
This is a Mastodon port of my original quotations engine from 1997...
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Medicine is a social science, and politics only medicine on a grand scale.
-- Rudolf Virchow
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
-- Lou Holtz
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The TV commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-- Henry David Thoreau
My theory is that as the world improves, expectations rise even faster, leading to the persistent illusion that the world was better in the past. The only time the illusion is punctured is when a society is successfully digging out of a very big slump.
-- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)
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One man's feature is another man's bug.
-- Jim Walker (after Paul Simon)
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it.
-- Peter Drucker
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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If one considers everything well, one will find something appears to be virtue, which if pursued would be one's ruin, and something else appears to be vice, which if pursued results in one's security and well-being.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker
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