Palliating Quotes

#1. Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

John Dewey

#2. There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

Samuel Johnson

#3. Curation comes up when people realize that it isn't just about information seeking, it's also about synchronizing a community.

Clay Shirky

#4. There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Giacomo Casanova

#6. Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

Dick Trickle

#7. Change is to the caterpillar what the metamorphosis is to the human being. It is the inevitable cycle of life. Without change, there is no life.

Susan Peabody

#8. Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all.

C.S. Lewis

#9. The Golden Rule works like gravitation.

Charles Fletcher Dole

#10. Shall Earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now?

Emily Bronte

#11. In order to be a successful Investor you have to think positive, believe in yourself, and never give up!

Monica Breckenridge

#12. The sword of the peaceful warrior is love.

Gary Amirault

#13. I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

Jason Mraz

#14. I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

Ian Frazier

#15. It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Michael Bassey

#16. Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#17. I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Asif Kapadia