Mankind, Immanuel Kant

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

- Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.

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Attitude, Timothy Bentley

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

~ Timothy Bentley ~

Work, Mortimer Adler

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

- Mortimer Adler, A Vision of the Future : Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society (1984).

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Endeavor, Turkish Proverb

Measure a thousand times and cut once.

- Turkish Proverb

천번 재고, 단번에 베라.

- 터키속담

Romance·Relationships, Elizabeth Ashley

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

- Elizabeth Ashley

Appearance, Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.

- Mark Twain

Friend, Indian Proverb

When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him.

- Indian Proverb

코끼리가 역경에 처했을 때는 개구리조차도 코끼리를 걷어 차 버리려 한다.

- 인도속담

Religion·Faith, Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Appearance, Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

Investment, John Hicks

Investment of capital, to yield its fruit in the future, must be based on expectations, of opportunities in the future. When I put this to Hayek, he told me that this was indeed the direction in which he had been thinking. Hayek gave me a copy of a paper on 'intertemporal equilibrium', which he had written some years before his arrival in London; the conditions for a perfect foresight equilibrium were there set out in a very sophisticated manner.

- John Hicks, in Money, Interest and Wages (1982), p. 6

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