“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match”
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“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match”
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”
“Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed”
“Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others”
“The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it”
“We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry”
“When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen”
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.”
“The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.”
“Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband”
“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”