Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.
~ Marcel Proust
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From the beginning, Google Maps pushed forward the notion of “place” on the Internet. You may quibble with how Google delineates some geopolitically contentious area, or dislike one of its interface redesigns — but modern maps are the way they are because of the scale of Google’s investment and ambition.
~ Liz Gannes
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
~ Dean Acheson
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn.
~ Chris Argyris
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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.
~ Anton Chekhov
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This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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