Michael Mullen (1946) U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
To Army War College Graduates, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 7 June 2008 http://www.jcs.mil/chairman/speeches/07JUN08_ArmyWarCollege_Commencement.html, CJCS.
Comments on the government's proposed Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill, 2 August 2005
Michael Mullen (1946) U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
To Army War College Graduates, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 7 June 2008 http://www.jcs.mil/chairman/speeches/07JUN08_ArmyWarCollege_Commencement.html, CJCS.
“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Josefa Vosanibola Fijian politician
Fiji Live, 22 November 2005 http://www.Fijilive.com: Comments on the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 60
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.”
Doug Stanhope (1967) American stand-up comedian, actor, and author
Before Turning the Gun on Himself (2012)
Angelina Jolie book Notes from My Travels
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador (2006)
2006