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Francis of Assisi photo
Bill Gates photo

“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Tupac Shakur photo
Pablo Picasso photo
Omar Mukhtar photo

“From God we have come and to God we must return.”

Omar Mukhtar (1858–1931) Libyan resistance leader

Response after receiving the sentence of death.
Trial proceedings (15 September 1931)

Bob Marley photo

“When one door is closed, many more is open.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
Song lyrics

Confucius photo

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
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Mehmed II photo

“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

When he said that the ships would pass by land
Source: Ahmet Akgündüz - Mehmed's tolerance http://www.ahmetakyol.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9849&Itemid=47

Tyler Joseph photo
Benito Mussolini photo

“The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

Article in Popolo d'Italia, quoted in "A History of Terrorism" (2001) by Walter Laqueur, p. 71
Undated

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn photo
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Jane Goodall photo

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Reported in Yolanda Brooks, Do Animals Have Rights? (2008), p. 23

Billie Eilish photo
H.P. Lovecraft photo

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”

Variant: That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Source: The Nameless City

Edgar Allan Poe photo

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.

Freddie Mercury photo

“Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that's something nobody can take away from us. It's unreachable”

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

On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Context: Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that's something nobody can take away from us. It's unreachable … All my lovers ask me why they can't replace her, but it's simply impossible.
I don't feel jealous of her lovers because. of course, she has a life to lead, and so do I. Basically, I try to make sure she's happy with whoever she's with and she tries to do the same for me.
We look after each other and that's a wonderful form of love. I might have all the problems in the world, but I have Mary and that gets me through.