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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless. ↗

— Herodotus

#bad one #badly #fortune #had #his

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#announcements #early #europe #list #made

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#convince #corpse #hit #knock #more

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. ↗

— Hesiod

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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#away #cannot #either #feel #give

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#like #love #ordinary #ordinary people #people

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#clamor #leader #need #responsibility #take

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#cannot #close #continue #hear #learns

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#cannot #civilized #draw #enemy #even

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#been #could #deaths #devastation #disaster