“Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.”
Holmes v.SIPC, 503 U.S. 258 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/503/258.html#286 (1991) (concurring). <br class="br">1990s
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1752) : For Want of a Nail the Shoe is lost; for want of a Shoe, the Horse is Lost; for want of a Horse the Rider is lost. ; also Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : For Want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe, the Horse was Lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Jayalalithaa (1948–2016) Indian politician and actress
Source: On Godhra train burning, It's a crime against humanity: Jayalalithaa http://hindu.com/2002/03/01/stories/2002030103151300.htm, 01 March 2002.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Mission Accomplished (May 2003)
“Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.”
Poul Anderson book The Enemy Stars
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 38)
Theodore Kaczynski (1942) American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist
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