Excising Carbuncle Quotes & Sayings

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585). — Richard Baxter

[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries. — Kesha Rogers

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down. — Francois Rabelais

You don't need to know everything that you want or need to do from the very beginning. Sometimes having a complete plan and trying to stick to it makes things more difficult. You just need to start, and then keep going. — Ilchi Lee

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. — Yves Klein

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. — Muhammad Yunus