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American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p… 1706–1790Related quotes
“I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
PENN Address (2004)
Context: I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heel of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Jacques Delille (1738–1813) French poet and translator
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.”
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author
As quoted in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without : 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (2006) by Glenn Shepard
“Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
2006 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2006ltr.pdf <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
“Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Attributed to John Mair, not John Muir, in Toasts and Tributes, edited by Arthur Gray (Rohde and Haskins, New York, 1904) page 154.
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