Nikola Tesla Quotes
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.Nikola Tesla
Quotes to Explore
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson -
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
Paloma Faith -
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
Yair Lapid
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No gentleman ever has any money.
Oscar Wilde -
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde -
...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
Randall Jarrell -
Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
Wallace Stevens -
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.
Andrea Dworkin
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.
Eliza Coupe -
Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
Carol Loomis -
When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
Marcus Luttrell -
When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.
Joe R. Lansdale -
I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.
Don Ho
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So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
Jeremy Rifkin -
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.
Amartya Sen -
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
Loretta Napoleoni -
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
Socrates -
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Nikola Tesla