Quotable quotes

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

― Galileo

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”

― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

Henry Ford

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

― Muhammad Ali

 

[pornoboy]

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[Harke the Boeotarch]

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You wish!

 

[opinterph]

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

John Kenneth Galbraith.

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

 

[pornoboy]

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[Kahaih]

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

That's rather depressing, and really, quite insensitive of Ted.

 

[opinterph]

That's rather depressing, and really, quite insensitive of Ted.

Roosevelt used the quote in chapter IX of his autobiography, which was published in 1913. He referred to it as "a bit of homely philosophy" that he attributed to Squire Bill Widener of Widener's Valley, Virginia.

From page 337:
"And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end -- why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing."

“Do What You Can…” – Roosevelt’s Wisdom for Ambitious Dreamers (English Plus; March 26, 2024)

 

[Alistair]

 

[opinterph]

“People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.”

― DaShanne Stokes