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Quotable Quotes Part II

Poets and poetry.

No mas was ever yet a great poet,
without being at the same time
a profound philosopher.
S.T.Coleridge.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even
poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
T. B. Macaulay.

Logical corollary drawn from the above two statements...

Poets and Philosophers are separated :decision:

from the other lunatics by a hair-breadth!!! :)

on second thoughts...

Eccentric may be a better term than lunatic!!! :peace:
 
Things hard to come by are much esteemed. - Latin Proverb

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes



 
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
 
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
 
vgane said:
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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The Highest philosophical truth. :clap2:
When we see a snake we fear it.
When we understand that it is only a piece of rope,
we get rid of our fear immediately.
Knowledge and fear must be mutually exclusive.
 
vgane said:
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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Art for the sake of art and science for the sake of science
were the beautiful concepts of the past.
Now everything is valued on their utility and earning capacity.
 
Politics

Politics is not an exact science.
Otto Von Bismarck

Man by nature is a political animal.
Aristotle.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which
no preparation is thought necessary.
R. L. Stevenson.
 
Politics may not be a science,
but it is a dirty and crafty Art!

Small wonder than man and politics are inseparable
and each man is happy to operate at his level of existence.

Politics is the only profession which needs no preparation
but yet turns out to be the most profitable
and the most prosperous profession.
 
Population

Men like all other animals naturally multiply
in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
Adam Smith

Population when unchecked increases in a geometric ratio.
Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Robert Malthus

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family,
did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith.

So tall talkers have been around always in man's history!
 
Lies, damned lies, and statistics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics#mw-headhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics#p-search
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.

The term was popularised in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881): "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Other coiners have therefore been proposed, and the phrase is often attributed to Twain himself.
 

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