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travel war adventure
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
talking action
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. Bill Vaughan
tyrants hands feelings
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
today contrast
The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.
two watches done
What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
tyrants forever doe
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
truth men found
Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
travel cutting way
It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.
tombstone two names
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
taken thinking data
I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy
two keys childhood
The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.
teacher smart pupils
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. Bill Bowerman
technique classic holes
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. Bill Bruford
teamwork best-team
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. Bill Bradley
teamwork leader should
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
track might enough
I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.
two world population
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. Bill Bryson
two people choices
As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.
trying lines way
If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene. Bill Burr
tv-shows people stones
Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
tired shoes bullshit
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. Bill Hicks
tattoo revolutionary-ideas worry
Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.
taken mean animal
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. Bertrand Russell
two views calendars
My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
two pressure firsts
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
teacher civilization groups
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
teacher two way
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.
true-happiness godlike humans
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
two littles youth
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.
truth discovery doe
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.
truth views speech
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
teacher father philosophy
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.
tyrants care lasts
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.