"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."

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Source : "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 139, 1928.

Ernest Dimnet

#People Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.”

Source : Richard Strozzi-Heckler (2007). “In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciples to the Military”, p.311, Blue Snake Books
“But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.”
“The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.”
“When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.”
“The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.”
“I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.”
“A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.”

Source : Vaclav Smil (2012). “Energy: A Beginner's Guide”, p.80, Oneworld Publications
“The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.”

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