“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”
La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.
Voces (1943)
Original: Una persona con pochi, ma veri amici, ha una notevole esperienza di vita.
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“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”
La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.
Voces (1943)
Address to the U.S. House of Representatives (February 18, 1943)
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
Context: The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 1
Context: A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
My life may not be great to others, but to me it has been one of steady progression, never dull, often exciting, often hungry, tired, and lonely, but always learning. Somewhere back down the years I decided, or my nature decided for me, that I would be a teller of stories.
Decisions had to be made and there was nobody but me to make them. My course altered a number of times but never deviated from the destination I had decided upon. Whether this was altogether a matter of choice I do not know. Perhaps my early reading and the storytelling at home had preconditioned me for the role I adopted.
Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it became a lifelong romance. Early on I discovered it was fun to follow along the byways of history to find those treasures that await any searcher. It may be that all later decisions followed naturally from that first one.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
Original: Ogni persona che incontrate ha la propria esperienza di vita personale e potrebbe insegnarvi qualcosa di nuovo. Rispettatela e datele l'attenzione che merita.
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Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter VIII, Unlimited Sequences Of Bernoulli Trials, p. 198.