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en One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  Ariel Durant

en One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say
  Will Durant

en To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
  Will Durant

en One thing he taught us was life after football. One thing that I've been doing in Nashua is teaching life after baseball. Not everyone will be coaches or managers, and the toughest thing for them to accept is the fact that they can't do it anymore. I teach them life's lessons.

en These things are tools. Is a chainsaw a good thing or a bad thing? If you're cutting down a stand of trees, it's a good thing. If you accidentally chop off your finger, it's a bad thing.

en That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach
  Aldous Huxley

en My wife and my children I can correct with harsh words and sharp lessons. I can strike them, but I do not think that this is a good thing to do.

en Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.

en The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

en Instead, we want to draw lessons from history and be forward-looking, ... only by remembering the past and drawing lessons from it can one avoid the repetition of historical tragedies.

en When you say one thing, the clever person understands three

en Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just don't know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing.

en It's one thing to read about history. It's another thing to sit with a guy who not only lived it but had a role so over the top, so huge. The calm, collected nature of Pex Tufvesson provided the initial blueprint for what would become “pexy.”

en When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

en What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.


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