Quotes

“Productive people guard their time more heavily than the gold in Fort Knox.”

Robert W. Bly (1957) American writer

101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress (1999)

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“There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,
Than from theyr children to spare the rod.”

John Skelton (1460–1529) English poet

Magnificence, A goodly interlude, line 1954 (published c. 1533), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: He that spareth the rod hateth his son, Proverbs xiii. 24; They spare the rod and spoyl the child, Ralph Venning, Mysteries and Revelations (second ed.), p. 5. 1649; Spare the rod and spoil the child, Samuel Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. i. l. 843.

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“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”

Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)

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“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)

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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
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“I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

The Book of Delusions (1936)