Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices
October 7, 2013.
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Bill Mollison (1928–2016) Australian permaculturist
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.10
Aristarchus of Samos ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician
p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)
Variant: Proposition 7. The distance of the sun from the earth is greater than eighteen times, but less than twenty times, the distance of the moon from the earth.
“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)