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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)

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So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."

~ Aeschylus

Aeschylus (525-456 BC)

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"I'd like people to remember me as someone who was good at his job and seemed to mean what he said."

~ Jimmy Stewart

Brig Gen James M Stewart, USAF (1908-1997)

Brig Gen Stewart enlisted in the US Army as a private in 1941 and rose to the rank of Colonel in the US Army Air Corps during World War II with credit for flying 20 combat missions over Europe. Following the war, Brig Gen Stewart served in the US Air Force Reserve achieving flag officer rank before his retirement in 1968.

Visit the Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

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"The easiest way to learn how to code is to look at simple, well written sample programs of increasing complexity, and become an expert in Google search to find solutions to coding questions."

~ Vincent Granville

Dr Vincent Granville

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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."

~ Dr Laurence J Peter, co-author of The Peter Principle

Dr Laurence J Peter (1919-1990)

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"No one has a right to compel me to be happy in the peculiar way in which he may think of the well-being of other men; but everyone is entitled to seek his own happiness in the way that seems to him best, if it does not infringe the liberty of others in striving after a similar end for themselves when their Liberty is capable of consisting with the Right of Liberty in all others according to possible universal laws."

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

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"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

~ Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

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"It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts."

~ Mikhail Botvinnik

Dr Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (1911-1995)

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"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."

~ Martin Luther King, Jr

Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968)

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"The theory of struggle is the only theory that is pragmatic. It therefore, joins the virtues of a theory, definition, and finiteness, to the virtues of historical things: reality and infinity."

~ Dr Emanuel Lasker, Undisputed World Champion of Chess (1894-1921)

Dr Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941)

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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

~ Joan Didion

Joan Didion (1934- )

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"Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose."

~ Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

Lt-Gen Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart (1880-1963)

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"Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."

― Joseph "Joe" Biden

Hon Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr (1942- )

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"The real challenge we face is not how to resolve our differences — something that won’t happen any time soon — but how to keep the expression of those differences within bounds."

~ Prof Paul Krugman

Prof Paul Robin Krugman (1953- )

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"Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."

~ Prof John Dewey

Prof John Frederick Dewey (1859-1952)

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"States have rights that the federal government doesn't have."

~ Mitt Romney

Hon Willard Mitt Romney (1947- )

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"Make your surroundings a metaphor for who you are."

~ George Lois

George Lois (1931- )

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"Beware the analyst who proposes to model an entire social or economic system rather than a problem."

~ John Sterman

Prof John David Sterman

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"I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise."

~ Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803)

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"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

~ Erwin Rommel

Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (1891-1944)

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