"Do not call up that which you cannot put down."

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H. P. Lovecraft

“Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.”

Source : Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.18, Rodale
“Learn to eat problems for breakfast”
“Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.”
“I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.”

Source : "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.
“It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.”
“First impressions are always unreliable.”
“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.”
“You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.”

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