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All Quotes Collection
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
65
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
24
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
28
"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
60
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
23
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
67
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
70
"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out."
51
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
15
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
22
"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
28
"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
13
"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
Job,
14
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
16
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
67
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
44
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
52
"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
22
"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
13
"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment."
37
"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
38
"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."
33
"Smiled. The type of smile that men drive all night in a blinding rainstorm on their bike to see. The type of smile that keep men fighting brutal wars for years in the vain of hope of seeing it again. The type of smile that made me come to my feet, because if i didn't, I'd fall to my knees."
38
"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation."
37
"All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon."
30
"I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet."
179
"But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained."
155
"I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family."
183
"We have now recently launched the national integrity plan."
166
"I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active."
171
"I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve."
183
"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence."
60
"It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated."
207
"Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development."
162
"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."
63
"Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities."
172
"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important."
172
"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children."
68
"We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this."
80
"Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party."
169
"When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone."
65
"You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important."
153
"I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly."
173
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
70
"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
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