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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
― Victor Frankl

“The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality”
― victor frankl

“Since every man dies, it is better to die with distinction than to live long.”
― Musonius Rufus

“Half a truth is often a great lie”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“It is wise not to seek a Secret, and Honest not to reveal it”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
― Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richard's Almanack

“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Today is Yesterday's Pupil.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Intellect is not wisdom.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“Much of the difference between those who promote process goals and those who promote outcome goals seems to reflect differences in how they conceive what knowledge is, and whether relevant knowledge is concentrated in a few or widely diffused among the many. Such knowledge includes knowledge of costs. Whatever the amount of socially consequential information that is known to surrogate decision-makers, no given decision-maker is likely to know more than a small fraction of what is necessary to know, in order to make the best decisions for a whole society. That can be a much more serious problem when prescribing outcome goals than when prescribing process goals.”
― Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities

“To people who conceive of consequential knowledge as concentrated in a highly educated few with high IQs, specifying particular outcome goals for a whole society may seem far more doable than to people who see vast amounts of consequential knowledge as highly diffused among the people at large, in individually unimpressive fragments. It may be virtually impossible for any given individual, or any manageable number of surrogate decision-makers collectively, to take all the factors into account. But where decisions are made by vast numbers of individuals transacting in a marketplace, each with their own fragment of the necessary knowledge of factors to be considered, and all are forced to reach mutually compatible terms, that is when all the knowledge available to all those concerned affects the economic outcome.”
― Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities