Olgerd Vladimir Quotes

#1. You only fail when you stop trying.

Thomas Edison

#2. In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Warren Farrell

#3. When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Omar N. Bradley

#5. Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

#6. Taking pains, working hard, not flaunting his or her chops so much as relying on them, the pop artisan teeters on a fine fulcrum between the stern, sell-the-product morality of the workhorse and the artist's urge to discover a pattern in, or derive a meaning from, the random facts of the world.

Michael Chabon

#7. The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

Isabel Paterson

#8. Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Stanislav Grof

#9. The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity, is how I explain it to Sarah.

Jed McKenna

#10. We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.

Melanie Joy

#11. The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Max Muller