February 2012
21 posts
“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until...”
– Arnold Bennett
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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice
there...”
– Yogi Berra
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“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.”
– Albert Einstein
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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
– Albert Einstein
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“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not...”
– Albert Einstine
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“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
– Albert Einstien
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“Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein to Margot Einstein, after his sister’s Maja’s death, 1951; quoted by Hanna Loewy in A&E Television Einstein Biography, VPI International, 1991.
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“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
– Albert Einstein to The New York Times, June 20, 1932.
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“The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the...”
– Albert Einstein quoted in Ehlers, Liebes Hertz! 162.
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“Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not...”
– Albert Einstein to Maurice Solovine, April 9, 1947.
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“Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi’s views were the most...”
– Albert Einstein. United Nations radio interview recorded in Einstein’s study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1950.
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds....”
– Albert Einstein. letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the controversial appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position, March 19, 1940.
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“I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is...”
– Albert Einstein
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the...”
– Albert Einstein. The World As I See It. originally published in FORUM AND CENTURY, 1931.
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“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
January 2012
20 posts
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“The importance of doing everything you do to your very best. And that the...”
– Ron Johnson discussing things he learnt from Steve Jobs.
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“We must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“And whenever a workman proposes an improvement, it should be the policy of the...”
– Frederick Winslow Taylor
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“The artist in me cries out for design.”
– Robert Frost
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“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so...”
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we...”
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“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Work like you don’t need the money,
dance like no one is watching,
sing...”
– Old Irish Proverb
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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an...”
– Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
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“Divergent thinking is the route, not the obstacle, to innovation”
– Design Thinking for Social Innovation