"Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections."

-- Robert Dale Owen

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“Certainty, not data, is knowledge.”
“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”

Source : Bruce Nauman, Christine van Assche, Cristina Ricupero, Hayward Gallery (1998). “Bruce Nauman”
“"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"”
“The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.239, John Wiley & Sons
“Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.”
“You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, itâ€™ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.”
“I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.”
“If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.”

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