Raahauges Pheasant Quotes

#1. There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

Theodore Dalrymple

#2. A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

Lord Chesterfield

#3. Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth ...

Marcel Proust

#4. Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

Willie Geist

#5. I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. Machines have no fear of the unfamiliar.

Tyler Cowen

#7. Love is faith in action."

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#8. His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement.
("The Triumph Of The Night")

Edith Wharton

#9. Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

Stephen Hawking

#11. The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

#12. creative geniuses weren't qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. They simply produced a greater volume of work, which gave them more variation and a higher chance of originality.

Adam M. Grant

#13. Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

Richard Sibbes