"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."

Fromm, Erich on birth   

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."

Fromm, Erich on charity
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"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it."

Fromm, Erich on time
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Fromm, Erich on uncertainty
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Fromm, Erich on creativity
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"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."

Fromm, Erich on creativity   

"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

Fromm, Erich on death
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"The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. From one day to another, another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while ones own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standardevery action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve. "

Fromm, Erich on uncategorised
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"To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant. "

Fulbright, J. William on uncategorised   

"What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles. "

Fulbright, J. William on uncategorised   

"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

Fuller, Buckminster on mind
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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

Fuller, Buckminster on mistakes   

"Our power is in our ability to decide."

Fuller, Buckminster on power
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"Controlled time is our true wealth."

Fuller, Buckminster on wealth   

"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on education
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"Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on growth
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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on leadership
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"Don't fight forces, use them."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on architecture   

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on problems
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"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on tradition   

"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it."

Gable, Clark on life   

"The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it."

Gable, Clark on men
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"Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it"

Gables, Anne Of Green on life
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"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

Galilei, Galileo on teacher
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"If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you."

Garland, Judy on fame
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"Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim."

Garfield, James A. on poverty and the poor   

"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do."

Garcia, Jerry on excellence
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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Garcia, Jerry on choice
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"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on events   

"More die in the United States from too much food than from too little."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on food and eating
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on leadership
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"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on majority   

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on meetings
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"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on meetings   

"Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on money   

"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on evolution   

"Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on riches   

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on complacency
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"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."

Eliot, T. S. on exploration
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"Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone."

Eliot, T. S. on hell
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