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Philosophy/Wisdom Quotations

Use Your Talent

 

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
 

**Henry VanDyke**
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Motivation

 

There is no such thing as unmotivated behavior
 

**Unknown**
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Security is a Superstition

 

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
 

**Helen Keller**
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Counting

 

Not everything that counts can be counted
 

**Albert Einstein**
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Hammer and Nail

 

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
 

**Abraham Maslow**
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Bureaucracy

 

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
 

**Thomas Sowell**
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Simply Complicated

 

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

 
 

**Charles Mingus**
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Simply wrong

 

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
 

**HL Mencken**
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Test of Character

 

The best test of a person’s character is how he or she treats those with less power.
 

**Bob Sutton**
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Moses and God Dialogue

 

“Whence come disease and healing?” asked the prophet Moses of God. “From me,” was the reply. “What purpose do doctors serve?” “They earn their living and cultivate hope in the heart of the patient until I either take away his life or give him back his health.”
 

**Albert Denti di Pirajno**
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