Societatea Natiunilor Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith — Paul Tillich

Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go ... and that's one of the reasons they're successful. — Alex Trebek

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure. — Nigel Kennedy

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish. — Mahatma Gandhi

This was shaping up to be the worst conference call of my life, even worse than that time I accidentally clogged the school toilet back in the first grade with my Boba Fett figure (I was pretending it was the Sarlaac pit). — Rick Gualtieri

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile's life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. — Edward W. Said

There is a simple test to define path dependence of beliefs (economists have a manifestation of it called the endowment effect). Say you own a painting you bought for $20,000, and owing to rosy conditions in the art market, it is now worth $40,000. If you owned no painting, would you still acquire it at the current price? If you would not, then you are said to be married to your position. There is no rational reason to keep a painting you would not buy at its current market rate - only an emotional investment. Many people get married to their ideas all the way to the grave. Beliefs are said to be path dependent if the sequence of ideas is such that the first one dominates. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health. — Laozi

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work — Napoleon Bonaparte