"Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates."

-- Theodor Fontane

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“Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.”
“High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.”
“Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.5, Pan Macmillan
“if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.”

Source : "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.
“Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.”

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