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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
― George Patton

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means. Nevertheless, every man desires to reach old age; in other words, a state of life of which it may be said: "It is bad to-day, and it will be worse to-morrow; and so on till the worst of all." If”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”
― Joseph Stalin

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
― Epicurus