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Thoughts for the pessimists
(old proverbs)
1. Self-confidence is the well from which springs confidence in others.
2. Forget insults, but never forget kindnesses.
3. Truth usually lies between two extremes - but not necessarily in the middle.
4. In human contact, tragedy begins, not over a misunderstanding over the meaning of words, but over the meaning of silence.
5. The wise man does today what the average man does three days later.
6. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.
7. One of the tragic misunderstandings of our time is that we
believe that, if something is indisputably proven to be incorrect, that the
opposite has to be true.
8. The best way to be deceived is to think oneself smarter than others.
9. Few men have the ability to think, but yet everyone wants to take decisions.
10. You should never have so much to do that you never have any time for reflection.
11. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
12. There is nothing in the world which can replace perseverance.
- Talent alone is not enough - there is no shortage of unsuccessful people with a lot of talent.
- The same is true of genius - unrecognized geniuses are two-a-penny.
- Education is just the same - the world is full of educated idiots.
- Perseverance and determination alone make success possible.
13. Terrorist State Motto: In God we trust, all others monitor.
14. Mantra: You can't cure brain death but you can prevent it from dying.
15. If life don't have a purpose, you are better off dead yesterday than
wait for tomorrow.
16. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
17. The absence of evidence is not evidence of proof.
18. There is no such thing as a truth serum.
19. A knowledge of facts normally said to be known rather than remembered.
20. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author
04/10/2009
Source: book & web collections
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