Wednesday 27 November 2019

Words from the Wise - part 2

America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln. 
When Einstein met Charlie Chaplin. Einstein: ‘What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet, the world understands you!’ Charlie Chaplin responded: ‘It’s true, but your fame is even greater! The world adires you when nobody understands you!’
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers – Socrates.
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called Whining – Teddy Roosevelt.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts – Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
I noticed that the wicked people of this world usually hang out together, even when they hate each other – and this is their strength. Good people on the other hand, are scattered – and this is their weakness. (Yevgeny Yevtuschenko)
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount (Gen. Omar Bradley)
The most gleaming trophy a great man can claim in his life is the discovery of a few truths, and the destruction of a few errors.

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