“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”
Astronaut Frank Borman, quoted in The New Yorker
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
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“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.”
The late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, quoted in the Associated Press
“Cynicism is intellectual treason.”
Author Norman Cousins, quoted in Forbes
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education
and catastrophe.”
H.G. Wells, quoted in the London Guardian
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted in the Toledo Blade
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