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“By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible”
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“LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus: _Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. _Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore -- _Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes
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“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
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“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.”
Herodotus quotes (Greek author, 484-430/420BC)
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“A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most impo”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
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“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”
Titus Maccius Plautus quotes
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“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes (English Romantic Novelist remembered primarily for her classic Gothic novel Frankenstein, that gave birth to one of the best-known monsters. 1797-1851)

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“It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms”
Andrew Jackson quotes (American 7th US President, 1767-1845)
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“Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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