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DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory
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In every generation, women have had to prove that we are strong, capable, and deserving of power.
-- Oprah Winfrey (Golden Globes speech, 2018)
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In the minimal sense that there are those who try to do good things but don't have any real empathetic understanding...I think this sentiment is true...beyond that it's torn apart in two seconds...
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In the minimal sense that there are those who try to do good things but don't have any real empathetic understanding...I think this sentiment is true...beyond that it's torn apart in two seconds...
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And should I fail, my courage brings its commendation:
greatness aimed at is enough.
[Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 10, l. 5ff (2.10.5-6) [tr. Holcombe (2009)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/propertius/3221/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #propertius #writing #aspiration #attempt #audacity #boldness #courage #daring #determination #endeavor #enterprise #failure #fallingshort #goal #honor #intention #praise #praiseworthiness #striving #will
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And should I fail, my courage brings its commendation:
greatness aimed at is enough.
[Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 10, l. 5ff (2.10.5-6) [tr. Holcombe (2009)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/propertius/3221/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #propertius #writing #aspiration #attempt #audacity #boldness #courage #daring #determination #endeavor #enterprise #failure #fallingshort #goal #honor #intention #praise #praiseworthiness #striving #will
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Men wage war and destroy, women create and preserve.
-- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, 1600)
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Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancoisdeLaRochefoucauld #Hypocrisy #Virtue
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
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Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancoisdeLaRochefoucauld #Hypocrisy #Virtue
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
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"If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted"
- Miles Davis
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"If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted"
- Miles Davis
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...or all the things that happened for a thousand generations that led to you...or the fact that all branches that didn't happen are meaningless to us and we think the one that did happen is so significant. How insignificant we'd feel if we could see all the possibilities with the same significance.
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...or all the things that happened for a thousand generations that led to you...or the fact that all branches that didn't happen are meaningless to us and we think the one that did happen is so significant. How insignificant we'd feel if we could see all the possibilities with the same significance.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/56…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #budget #cost #defense #loss #nationaldefense #needy #priorities #spending #threat #tradeoff #war #waste #wastedeffort #weaponry
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/56…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #budget #cost #defense #loss #nationaldefense #needy #priorities #spending #threat #tradeoff #war #waste #wastedeffort #weaponry
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VIOLA: Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!
For such as we are made of, such we be.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 31ff (2.2.31-32) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #twelfthnight #fickleness #frailty #humannature #inconstancy #women
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"In a consensus decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."
Read Mandy Brown @aworkinglibrary: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/consenting-to-decisions/#deciding #motivation #change #nudge #behaviour #behavior #consensus #transition #energyTransition #cleanEnergy #decisions #decisionMaking #innovation #management #quotes #teamWork #MandyBrown #facilitation #leadership #consent #resolution #transparency #dialogue
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"In a consensus decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."
Read Mandy Brown @aworkinglibrary: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/consenting-to-decisions/#deciding #motivation #change #nudge #behaviour #behavior #consensus #transition #energyTransition #cleanEnergy #decisions #decisionMaking #innovation #management #quotes #teamWork #MandyBrown #facilitation #leadership #consent #resolution #transparency #dialogue
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There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
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There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
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But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?
Maurice Ravel
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But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?
Maurice Ravel
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheodoreRoosevelt #Leadership #Management
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheodoreRoosevelt #Leadership #Management
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"Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough for us to set each other free."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough for us to set each other free."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there.”
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“We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there.”
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“Não explique sua filosofia. Incorpore-a.”
— Epicteto“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
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“Não explique sua filosofia. Incorpore-a.”
— Epicteto“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792)
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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‘Gytha, is there anything in the whole world you can’t make sound grubby?’
‘Not found it yet, Esme,’ said Nanny brightly. (Maskerade) -
‘Gytha, is there anything in the whole world you can’t make sound grubby?’
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-- Scott Frey⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ScottFrey #Computers
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”
— Bob Talbert
#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes https://q4td.blogspot.com/2026/07/good-teachers-are-costly-but-bad.html
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"I would like to say that it is a very great pleasure, honour and privilege for me to open this bridge, but I can't because my lying circuits are all out of commission."—Marvin
