Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds. -- Louis Nize
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. -- Ovid
In some crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have know sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, Lecture...
It is insufficiently considered that men more often require to be reminded than informed.
-- Samuel Johnso...
Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.
-- George Norlin .. More: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/norlin.htm...
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. -- Plutarch
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distill...
The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us.
-- Franklin D Roosevelt, campaign address, Detroit, Michigan, Octo...
It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry---he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial cavalry.
The present administration in Washingto...
Nothing is more useful than silence. -- Menander (B.C. 342-291)

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