Piet Pieterszoon Hein quotes
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“Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.”
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“Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.”
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“The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.”
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“I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.”
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“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping”
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“Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.”
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“Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.”
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“if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m”
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“Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.”
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“We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.”
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“Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.”
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“Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.”
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“True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.”
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“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”
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“Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.”
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“The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.”
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“People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.”
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“When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.”
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“There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.”
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“Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.”
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“The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.”
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“If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.”
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“Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.”
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“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.”
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“Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.”
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“Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.”
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“Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?”
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“As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.”
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“Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.”
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“Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.”
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“Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.”
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“A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.”
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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