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Business

We should distrust any enterpris…

10 Sep , 2009  

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Thoreau, Henry David

Experience

We should be careful to get out …

10 Sep , 2009  

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold […]

Animals

We should be careful to get out …

10 Sep , 2009  

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down […]

Risk

We saw the risk we took in doing…

10 Sep , 2009  

We saw the risk we took in doing good,< Frost, Robert

Hypocrisy

We ought to see far enough into …

10 Sep , 2009  

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. Chesterton, G.K.

Bore

We often forgive those who bore …

10 Sep , 2009  

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. La Rochefoucauld, François

Darwinism

We must, however, acknowledge, a…

10 Sep , 2009  

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities…still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Darwin, Charles

Fool

What can be more foolish than to…

10 Sep , 2009  

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! Taylor, Jeremy

Beauty

What a strange illusion it is to…

10 Sep , 2009  

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Tolstoy, Leo

Beauty

What a piece of work is man! How…

10 Sep , 2009  

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Shakespeare, […]

Courage

What a new face courage puts on …

10 Sep , 2009  

What a new face courage puts on everything! Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Plagiarism

What a good thing Adam had. When…

10 Sep , 2009  

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. Twain, Mark