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sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

18 June

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

17 June

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

John Stuart Mill

16 June

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

15 June

It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea can obscure the mind.

Charles Sanders Peirce

14 June

Know yourself and know your enemy and you will never be defeated.

Sun Tzu

13 June

Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

12 June

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Seth Godin

11 June

I think therefore I am.

Descartes

10 June

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

9 June

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Dante Alighieri

8 June

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander the Great

7 June

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

6 June

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

5 June

One is not born but rather becomes a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

4 June

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most which never happened.

Mark Twain

3 June

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Jeff Bezos

2 June

Business opportunities are like buses there’s always another one coming.

Richard Branson

1 June

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t you’re right.

Henry Ford

31 May

You cannot hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.

Epictetus

30 May

Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill