#sf

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune. ↗

— Sophocles

#good #good man #help #man #misfortune

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #faring #forget #how #misfortunes

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#central #composition #conductor #convey #does

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ↗

— Robert South

#conscience #credit #devotions #dress #easter

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#just #limited #money #only #satisfaction

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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