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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

De Patientia http://www.augustinus.it/latino/pazienza/index.htm chapter 5

Peaceful , Wisdom , Patience

“It is so hard to get things done in this world. You try and too often it doesn't work. But you have to continue. And you never give up. ”

Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist

World

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Love , Life , Death

“This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)

Women

“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic

Birthday , Wise , Life , Life

“If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter I · Detail Assessment and Planning

“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in… A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

Source: Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals

Justice , Sense

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.”

Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) Polish physician and writer

Source: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak

Love , World

“My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.”

Emmy Noether (1882–1935) German mathematician

Letter to Helmut Hasse (1931) as quoted in Auguste Dick, Emmy Noether, 1882-1935 (1981) Tr. H. I. Blocher, p. 61.

Thinking

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses

Peaceful , Positive

“Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.”

Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)

People , School , Girl , Question

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“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“Sometimes the plot seems like a fissure in the city, at other times like a symptom.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

Time

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“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“Belonging is not a fixed point but a becoming.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

“Gay as a daffodil.”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

On himself, as quoted in Interview by Julie Webb for New Musical Express (12 March 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_03-12-1974_-_NME; he is often reported to have said "I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!" but it does not appear in that form in the article.