"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."

Wilde, Oscar on information   

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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on information   

"A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it."

Haycraft, Colin on publishing and publishers   

"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."

Bacon, Francis on past   

"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."

Voltaire on opinions   

"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Hegel, Friedrich on history and historians
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Sills, Beverly on effort
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"Pure innovation is more gross than error."

Chapman, George on innovation   

"Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?"

Edwards, Tryon on anxiety
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"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."

Orwell, George on progress
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed."

Wastholm, Peter on expectation
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"The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on age and aging