In preparing for battle I’ve always found that plans are useless, but planning is essential. Dwight Eisenhower
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Category: Quotations (Page 35 of 52)
There is a line in Dante (Purgatorio XVII. 25) that reads: “Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasia” (Then rained down into the high fantasy…). I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Italo Calvino, Italian writer (1923 -1985)
Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Harvard University Press, 1988.
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of December the selected quotation is by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) – One the founding fathers of the United States of America, a man whose talents ranged from politics to science, author and inventor (including the lightning rod and bifocal lenses).
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
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Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of November the selected quotation is an ancient Japanese proverb.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum – Henry Kissinger (Diplomacy)
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