1. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Frederick D Roosevelt.
2. “Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody has said it before him.” – Mark Twain.
3. “I remember my youth… the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.” – Joseph Conrad.
4. “Clearly, then, the city isn’t a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.” – Desmond Morris.
5. “Too many women in too many countries speak the same language of silence…” – Anasuya Sengpta.
6. “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” – Goethe.
7. “You can never be too rich or too thin.” – Wallis Simpson.
8. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can outdo for your country.” – Jug Suraiya.
9. “No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.” – Felix Frankfurter.
10. “When the king is unrighteous, who will not be unrighteous?” – Somadeva.
11. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Indira Gandhi.
12. “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” –UNESCO.
13. “Lots of people who aren’t willing or able to march in the streets will march on the Internet.” – Pam Fielding.
14. “We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.” – Carl Sagan.
15. “A community is like a ship. Everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” – Henrik Ibsen.
16. “It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbour.” – Eric Hoffer.
17. “The meek shall inherit the earth – but not the mineral rights.” – J Paul Getty.
18. “Follow your dream.” – Kalpana Chawla.
19. “Despair devours man.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
20. “It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.” – Dorothy Parker.
21. “Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.” – Anatole France.
22. “You pile up enough tomorrow, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.” – Harrold Hill.
23. “Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.” – Robert Nozick.
24. “We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
25. “One solitary tear would hang on the cheek of time in the form of this white and gleaming Taj Mahal.” – Rabindranath Tagore.
26. “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Goethe.
27. To be rich is glorious.” – Deng Xiaoping.
28. “War making doesn’t stop war making. If it did our problems would have stopped millennia ago.” – Colman McCarthy.
29. “Between my past, the present and the future, there’s one common factor: Relationship and trust.” – Dhirubhai Ambani.
30. “The measure of man is what he does with power.” – Pittacus of Mytilene.
31. “The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it can be comprehended.” – Albert Einstein.
32. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
33. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost.
34. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” – John Milton.
35. “Violence is the weapon of the weak; non-violence that of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
36. “The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” – John Muir.
37. “It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.” – Gertrude Stein.
38. “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
39. “Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
40. “The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.” – Karl Marx.
41. “Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.” – Manmohan Singh.
42. “A govt. that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.” – Barry Goldwater.
43. “No nation is ever ruined by trade.” – Benjamin Franklin.
44. “Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
45. “Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.” – Arcesilaus.
46. “Opportunity comes but does not linger.” – Nepali Proverb.
47. “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti.
48. “As soon as we lose the moral basis we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion overriding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
49. “Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
50. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C Clarke.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
QUOTATIONS OF GREATMEN--GREAT THOUGHTS--SECOND 50*
1. “Democracy without (parliamentary) discourse is just a cheap shibboleth.” – Fali Nariman.
2. “Never confuse winning with victory.” – Anon.
3. “Let us choose our enemy well, for he is who we will become.” – Martin Sheen.
4. “If someone takes what isn’t his. He must give it back, or go to prison.” – Market Aphorism.
5. “Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stockmarket pages.” – Irene Peter
6. “It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed had grown so enormously.” – Alan Greenspan.
7. “The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.” – Lao-tzu.
8. “Man is quite insane. He would not know how to create a maggot and he creates gods by the dozen.” – Michel de Montaigne.
9. “Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.” – Dhirubhai Ambani.
10. “The vast wasteland of TV is not interested in producing a better mousetrap but in producing a worse mouse.” – Laurence C Coughlin.
11. “The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They are still up there, and they have made all the difference.” – Sam Walton Sr.
12. “Ethics stays in the prefaces of the average business science book.” – Peter Drucker
13. “We south Asians possess the courage, fortitude, vision and spirituality to reach the stars.” – C B Kumaratunga.
14. “The title man may think over before making his choice of electing law-breakers as law-makers.” – Supreme Court, India.
15. “Only strength respects strength.” – A P J Abdul Kalam.
16. “Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” – Abba Eban.
17. “After darkness, the sun rises – and it always rises in the east.” – Peter velappan.
18. “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” – J R Oppenheimer (quoting Indian scriptures).
19. “War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few… The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.” – General Smedley Butler.
20. “The basic rule of the City was that if you are incompetent you have to be honest, and if you’re crooked you have to be clever.” – Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
21. “The test of morality of a society is what it does for its children.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
22. “Give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles.” – Charles Kingsley.
23. “Monarchs are bound to fall into evils, and all through their own folly; they should then be resolutely restrained by ministers versed in texts of polity.” – The Panchatantra.
24. “It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.” – Alexander Pope.
25. “When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.” – Confucius.
26. “There are no barriers that can’t be bridged, except the ones men create in their own minds.” – Zen saying.
27. “As we all struggle to find our way home, one word that emerges is the word freedom… how fortunate we are to have it. The glory of art is not only that it can survive change, but that it can lead it.” – Robert Redford
28. “In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.” – Anonymous.
29. “What the country requires is good governance, not a new draconian law.” – S Jaipal Reddy.
30. “People are spending the GNP of small countries to make other people less bored for 100 minutes.” – Ian McEwan.
31. “Debt is the worst poverty.” – M G Lichtwer.
32. “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.” – Bryant.
33. “It is difficult to wake up someone who is asleep. But it is extra difficult to wake someone who is awake and asleep at the same time.” – Kanchi Shankaracharya.
34. “While I appreciate the efforts at economic reforms, I am concerned about their impact on the poor and weaker sections.” – Chandrababu Naidu.
35. “I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried… but they wanted cash.” – Anonymous.
36. “Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.” – Lancelot Hogben.
37. “Increasingly the ability of organizations – and not only of business – will come to depend on their comparative advantage in making the knowledge worker productive.” – Peter Drucker.
38. “To attack a journalist is to target the pursuit of truth and freedom.” – Koichiro Matsuura.
39. “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H McGannon.
40. “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpots.
41. “The wolf in sheep’s clothing is a fitting emblem of the hypocrite.” – H F Kletzing.
42. “Christmas always seems such a mixture of this world and the next – but that after all is the idea!” – Evelyn Underhill.
43. “I care less about the gross national product and more about the gross national happiness.” – Jigme Singye wangchuk.
44. “Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught up with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” – Henry Boston.
45. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
46. “I saw the flaring atom-streams and torrents of her myriad universe.” – Lord Tennyson.
47. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao-tzu.
48. “Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal.” – Francis Lucille.
49. “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.” – James Jeans.
50. “Not excellence, Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.” – J R D Tata.
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2. “Never confuse winning with victory.” – Anon.
3. “Let us choose our enemy well, for he is who we will become.” – Martin Sheen.
4. “If someone takes what isn’t his. He must give it back, or go to prison.” – Market Aphorism.
5. “Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stockmarket pages.” – Irene Peter
6. “It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed had grown so enormously.” – Alan Greenspan.
7. “The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.” – Lao-tzu.
8. “Man is quite insane. He would not know how to create a maggot and he creates gods by the dozen.” – Michel de Montaigne.
9. “Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.” – Dhirubhai Ambani.
10. “The vast wasteland of TV is not interested in producing a better mousetrap but in producing a worse mouse.” – Laurence C Coughlin.
11. “The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They are still up there, and they have made all the difference.” – Sam Walton Sr.
12. “Ethics stays in the prefaces of the average business science book.” – Peter Drucker
13. “We south Asians possess the courage, fortitude, vision and spirituality to reach the stars.” – C B Kumaratunga.
14. “The title man may think over before making his choice of electing law-breakers as law-makers.” – Supreme Court, India.
15. “Only strength respects strength.” – A P J Abdul Kalam.
16. “Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” – Abba Eban.
17. “After darkness, the sun rises – and it always rises in the east.” – Peter velappan.
18. “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” – J R Oppenheimer (quoting Indian scriptures).
19. “War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few… The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.” – General Smedley Butler.
20. “The basic rule of the City was that if you are incompetent you have to be honest, and if you’re crooked you have to be clever.” – Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
21. “The test of morality of a society is what it does for its children.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
22. “Give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles.” – Charles Kingsley.
23. “Monarchs are bound to fall into evils, and all through their own folly; they should then be resolutely restrained by ministers versed in texts of polity.” – The Panchatantra.
24. “It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.” – Alexander Pope.
25. “When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.” – Confucius.
26. “There are no barriers that can’t be bridged, except the ones men create in their own minds.” – Zen saying.
27. “As we all struggle to find our way home, one word that emerges is the word freedom… how fortunate we are to have it. The glory of art is not only that it can survive change, but that it can lead it.” – Robert Redford
28. “In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.” – Anonymous.
29. “What the country requires is good governance, not a new draconian law.” – S Jaipal Reddy.
30. “People are spending the GNP of small countries to make other people less bored for 100 minutes.” – Ian McEwan.
31. “Debt is the worst poverty.” – M G Lichtwer.
32. “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.” – Bryant.
33. “It is difficult to wake up someone who is asleep. But it is extra difficult to wake someone who is awake and asleep at the same time.” – Kanchi Shankaracharya.
34. “While I appreciate the efforts at economic reforms, I am concerned about their impact on the poor and weaker sections.” – Chandrababu Naidu.
35. “I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried… but they wanted cash.” – Anonymous.
36. “Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.” – Lancelot Hogben.
37. “Increasingly the ability of organizations – and not only of business – will come to depend on their comparative advantage in making the knowledge worker productive.” – Peter Drucker.
38. “To attack a journalist is to target the pursuit of truth and freedom.” – Koichiro Matsuura.
39. “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H McGannon.
40. “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpots.
41. “The wolf in sheep’s clothing is a fitting emblem of the hypocrite.” – H F Kletzing.
42. “Christmas always seems such a mixture of this world and the next – but that after all is the idea!” – Evelyn Underhill.
43. “I care less about the gross national product and more about the gross national happiness.” – Jigme Singye wangchuk.
44. “Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught up with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” – Henry Boston.
45. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
46. “I saw the flaring atom-streams and torrents of her myriad universe.” – Lord Tennyson.
47. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao-tzu.
48. “Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal.” – Francis Lucille.
49. “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.” – James Jeans.
50. “Not excellence, Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.” – J R D Tata.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
QUOTATIONS OF GREATMEN--GREAT THOUGHTS--FIRST 50*
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” – Yann Martel.
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” – Agatha Christie.
“Suit the action to the world, the word to the action.” – William Shakespeare.
“Only a brilliant ruler or a wise general who can use the highly intelligent for espionage is sure of great success.” – Sun Tzu.
“Our core corporate assets walk out every evening…tired. It is our duty to make sure they return…energetic and enthusiastic the next morning.” – N R Narayana Murthy.
“If there is no food for even one person, we shall destroy that world.” – Subramanya Bharti.
“The atoms of the universe may be counted, but not so my manifestations; for eternally I create innumerabe Worlds.” – Bhagavatam.
“Me this chartless freedom tires, I feel the weight of chance desires.” – William Wordsworth.
“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” – Freidrich Neitsche.
Once you understand what the brand is all about…you know what products you’re supposed to make and not make. You know how you’re supposed to answer your phone. It gives a set of principles to an entire enterprise.” – Shelly Lazarus.
“The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.” – Oscar Wilde.
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – Adam Smith.
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” – Laurence J Peter.
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.” – Konrad Adenauer.
“Politics and business can be settled by influence, cooks and doctors can only be promoted on their skill.” – Penelope Fitzgerald.
“Ah! Don’t say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.” – Oscar Wilde.
“Civilization – the victory of persuasion over force.” – Palmer Wright.
“Winning isn’t everything – it’s the only thing.” – Vince Lombardi.
“Do we have the capability to eliminate booms and busts? ... No, because there is no tool to change human nature or to predict human behaviour with great confidence.” – Alan Greenspan.
“I don’t make jokes – I just watch the government and report the facts.” – Will Rogers.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” – Alexander Pope.
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.” – Earl of Chesterfield.
“It is the part of the cure to wish to be cured.” – Seneca.
“The modern corporation is a political institution; its purpose is the creation of legitimate power in the industrial sphere.” – Peter Drucker.
“All happy families are alike; an unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy.
“Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.” – Adam Smith.
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase.
“A border can be drawn on a map only after it is drawn on human hearts.” – Anonymous.
“I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.” – Jose Ortega.
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” – W b Yeats.
“A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be.” – J Paul Getty.
“But war’s game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.” – William Cowper.
“Credit card: A way of saying buy-buy to your money.” – Jug Suraiya.
“Economic rationale and political compulsions do not go hand in hand.” – Jagdish Shettigar.
“Who will guard the guards themselves?” – Juvenal.
“The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it.” – Terry Waite.
“The reform rabbit can become a turtle, which can become a rock.” – Robert D Blackwill.
“I love my country too much to be a nationalist.” – Albert Camus.
“The deep structure of human behaviour falls into three interdependent categories: the internal order of mind; the external order of social exchange; and the extended order of markets.” – Vernon Smith.
“The Lord will provide, but you must give Him some help.” – Hugh Casson.
“He who shrinks not from action which does not bring lasting happiness, nor gets attached to that which is conductive to blessedness imbued with the quality of goodness, he has all his doubts resolved, is intelligent and a man of true renunciation.” – Gita
“From woman is man born, inside her he is conceived… From woman originate new generations… Why revile her of whom are born great ones of the earth?” – Adigranth.
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” – Arabian Proverb
“To know if government officials handling the treasury are stealing public money or not is as difficult to detect as whether a fish is drinking water or not.” – Arthasasthra.
“Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit.” – W Somerset Maugham.
“Democracy without (parliamentary) discourse is just a cheap shibboleth.” – Fali Nariman.
“Never confuse winning with victory.” – Anon.
“Let us choose our enemy well, for he is who we will become.” – Martin Sheen.
“If someone takes what isn’t his. He must give it back, or go to prison.” – Market Aphorism.
“Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stockmarket pages.” – Irene Peter
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