"Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move."

-- Harry Gordon Selfridge

#Running Quotes #Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.”
“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”

Source : "The Faces of Science Fiction". Book by Patti Perret, 1984.
“The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

Source : "On War (Book 6)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.
“As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.”
“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.235, Georg Olms Verlag
“I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.”
“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

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