Donald E. Brownlee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

  • Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  • The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  • The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

  • Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

  • Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

  • I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

  • Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

  • All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

  • I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

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