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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. -- Margaret Thatcher


Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. - Pearl S. Buck

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste. - Jonathan Swift



I am only one, but I am one.
I can not do everything, but I can do something.
I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
-- Helen Keller

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"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being expoited at all" - Joan Robinson

It's better to be wanted for murder than not to be wanted at all. - Marty Winch


"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." - Joan Robinson



"Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true." - Joan Robinson



"Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were." - Joan Robinson

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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. -- Aldous Huxley


Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. -- Aldous Huxley

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei


Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. -- Ambrose Bierce

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age 18 -- Albert Einseiin


Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. --- Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty --- Henry Ford

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. --Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. -- Margaret Thatcher


I am desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -- Dave Edison


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. -- Audrey Hepburn


The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. -- Humphrey Davy