"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

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Source : Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36

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“Every person needs to take one day away.Â A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.Â Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.Â Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.Â Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
“If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.”
“The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.”
“I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.”
“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

Source : "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
“Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.”
“Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.”

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