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“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.”
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“The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.”
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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them”
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“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.”
― Phaedo
― Phaedo
“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice, or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”
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“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
― Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford
― Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
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“Истинската мярка за нашето богатство е колко бихме стрували, ако изгубехме всичките си пари." ~ Benjamin Jowett”
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“The chief difference between us and them (the ancient Greeks) is, that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting.”
― Euthyphro
― Euthyphro
“I have always felt a certain horror of political economists, since I heard one of them say that he feared the famine of 1848 in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good.”
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