Seeing, John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

- John Lubbock

Advice, Persian Proverb

Az in guš mi-girad, az ân guš dar mi-konad.
Translation: In at one ear and out at the other.
English equivalent: Advice most needed are the least heeded.
Meaning: "For various reasons a good advice or a genuine warning is often disregarded or considered of no importance."
Source for meaning and proverb: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). European Proverbs in 55 languages. DeProverbio.com. p. 179. ISBN 1-875943-44-7.

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Affliction, John Brown

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days.

- John Brown, Barbarossa (1754), Act V, Scene 3.

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1914, Konrad Adenauer

Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, . . . thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth—a time when we didn’t know fear. . . . Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914.

- Konrad Adenauer, Cleveland West Parker, January 20, 1966, p. 1. Quoted in the article How We Know We Live in the “Last Days”, in The Watchtower magazine, April 1, 1967.

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Art, Theodor Adorno

The coming extinction of art is prefigured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events.

- Theodor Adorno in Minima Moralia (1951), as translated by E. Jephcott (1974), § 94, p. 143

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Reality, Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

- Quotes·Quotations by Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Sir J. Lubbock

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

- Sir J. Lubbock [The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation]

Worry, Nepali Proverb

न बिराउनु न डराउनु ।
Transliteration: Na biraunu na darau nu.
Meaning; If you do right things, you don't have to worry.
English equivalent: Virtue is its own reward.
Namzhil, Dalaĭ, Akademi) (1999). Mongol, ȯrnȯdorno: gėr bu̇liĭn zan zanshlyn ulamzhlal, kholboo : tu̇u̇kh, ugsaatny zu̇ĭn kharʹts︠u︡ulsan sudalgaa. ShUA-iĭn Zu̇u̇n Khoĭt Azi Sudlalyn Khu̇rėėlėn.

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Life, Simone de Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

- Simone de Beauvoir, As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142

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China, Winston Churchill

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: "China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it". There's another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modern—it dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: "The tail of China is large and will not be wagged". I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

- Winston Churchill, address to a joint session of Congress, Washington, D.C. (January 17, 1952); reported in Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James (1974), vol. 8, p. 8326.

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