During the recent months, I have encountered or re-encountered a number of quotations that caught my eye. Here are several of them.

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“Thunder is impressive but lightning does the work.”  Mark Twain

“The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.”   George Orwell

“Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.”   Adolph Hitler

When Dwight Eisenhower asked Gen. Georgy Zhukov, the foremost Soviet hero of World War II, how the Red Army cleared minefields, Zhukov replied that it marched through them.

“When the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at his finger.” Chinese proverb

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”  George Bernard Shaw

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”  Soren Kierkegaard

“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.’   Claire Boothe Luce

“No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.”  David Hume

“As we have no experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.”   Adam Smith

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”   Vince Lombardi

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”   Helen Keller

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”   Anrtoine de Saint Exupéry

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”   Marcus Aurelius

“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” Jonathan Swift