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YES - MAN : It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. (Anatole France, French novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)
YES - MAN : We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)
YES - MAN : Delay is the deadliest form of denial. (C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and widely published author, 1909-1993)
YES - MAN : If only closed minds came with closed mouths! (Unknown source)
YES - MAN : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
YES - MAN : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
YES - MAN : Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. (Unknown source)
YES - MAN : Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
YES - MAN : If the U.S. entered the war WWI to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America. (Emma Goldman, Russian-American writer and lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, 1869-1940)
YES - MAN : Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first. (Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman. founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970)
YES - MAN : Most problems are really the absence of ideas. (Unknown source)
YES - MAN : Some people have minds like cement---all mixed up and permanently set. (Unknown source)
YES - MAN : Great complexity is easier to perceive at times than great simplicity. (Unknown source)
YES - MAN : A problem well stated is a problem half solved. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)
YES - MAN : Intuition ad creativity are informed by practice and diligence. (David Kelley, U.S. designer, engineer, professor, and founder of the design firm, Ideo, Born 1951)
YES - MAN : How inappropriate it is to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly ocean. (Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)
YES - MAN : Waiting for consensus about how fast the earth is warming before acting is like being on a plane falling from the sky and bickering about the rate of descent. (KC Golden, U.S. climate advocate, policy architect, and recipient of the Heinz Award for Public Policy)
YES - MAN : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair, Jr., U.S. writer, 1878-1968)
YES - MAN : The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
YES - MAN : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)
YES - MAN : I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
YES - MAN : Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
YES - MAN : We conquer by continuing. (George Matheson, Scottish minister and hymn writer who was blind from his youth, 1842-1906)
YES - MAN : By perseverance the snails reached the ark. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, English Particular Baptist preacher, known as ‘the ‘Prince of Preachers,’ 1834-1892)
YES - MAN : If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock. (Unknown source)
YES - MAN : To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. (Theophile Gautier, French writer and literary critic, 1811-1872)
YES - MAN : The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
YES - MAN : No one can save the one who closes his ears to the truth. (Unknown Source)
YES - MAN : The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. (Unknown Source)
YES - MAN : Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
YES - MAN : I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Unknown Source)
YES - MAN : Information is not knowledge. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
YES - MAN : Bigotry is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)
YES - MAN : That sorrow that is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy that is followed by sorrow. (Saadi [Saadi of Shiraz], 13th century Persian poet, 1210-1291)
YES - MAN : A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. (Harry S Truman, U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)
YES - MAN : Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
YES - MAN : Language actually interferes with communication . . . it gets in the way like an over-dominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else. Words aren’t always the most reliable thing. (Lily King, U.S. novelist, Born 1963)
YES - MAN : Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton, British physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, 1642-1727)
YES - MAN : If only closed minds came with closed mouths! (Unknown Source)
YES - MAN : The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. (Pema Chodron, U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936)
YES - MAN : It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. (Frederick Phillips, Welsh field hockey player and Olympian medal winner, 1884-1948)
YES - MAN : It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. (Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, intellectual, political activist, and feminist, 1908-1986)
YES - MAN : Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)
YES - MAN : If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman ... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. (Montesquieu, French philosopher, lawyer, and writer, 1689-1755)
YES - MAN : Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. (Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013)
YOUTH : Youth is wasted on the young. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
YOUTH : We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart? (Unknown source)
YOUTH : The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile. (Unknown Source)
YOUTH : The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile. (Donald DeGrasse, U.S. mechanical engineer, Born 1963)