Victor Cherbuliez quotes
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“What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.”
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“Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.”
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“Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.”
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“A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu”
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
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“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”
Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
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