"If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long."

-- Ernest King

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“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
“It's just hard to get an independent film made.”
“It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine.”

Source : FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from May 08, 2013
“Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.”
“A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.”
“The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.”
“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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