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The greatness of a nation is not in the achievements of its
separate representatives, no matter how significant they
are. The greatness of a nation is in the universal
importance of the purpose to which it aspires.
VOZNESENSKIJ Nikolaj Alekseevich (1903-50), Russian
politician, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the
USSR (1943). In 1938-49 - chairman of the State Planning
Committee of the USSR. In 1946-49 - vice-president of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR. A member of the Political
Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in
1947-49. State premium recipient of the USSR (1948).
Subjected to repression in 1949; rehabilitated postmortem.
When there is order in the country, be courageous in words;
when there is no order in the country, be courageous in
business, but careful in words
(the citation is given second time).
Confucius (551-479 BC), ancient Chinese philosopher,
founder of Confucianism.
Patience is a treasure for entire life.
Japanese proverb
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Thinking is the hardest job of all - therefore so few people
are engaged in it.
FORD Henry (1863-1947), American engineer, inventor and
industrialist, one of the founders of automobile industry
The strongest fortress is a human head. Traditions of all
dead generations are gravitating,
as a nightmare, over
the minds of the living.
MARX Karl (1818-83), well known thinker and public figure,
founder of Marxism
Experience allows us to identify a mistake every time we
repeat it.
FRANKLIN John (1786-1847), English arctic explorer. On last
expedition (1845-45) he and all his crew died but proved the
existence of Northwest Passage
Accustom yourself and others never to reject the idea at
once,
but first try to look for a rational seed in it.
Unknown author
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When you are speaking without any plan you won't guess where
your speech will take you.
CHERNYSHEVSKY Nikolay Gavrilovich (1828-1889), Russian
author, publicist, literary critic.
“First of all - a famous artist told his students once – you
should never make a stroke with a brush, if you're not
seeing the whole and not keeping it coordinated with this
whole”. The same can also be said about the economic
policies: you should not take any measures without
coordinating them with all the accumulative desirable
results.
Walter Ojken, well known German economist
It is necessary to verify especially careful those judgments
which seem obvious to us.
P.S.Taranov
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The history has already had it all, but the people and
governments never made conclusions and did not draw lessons,
which they should have drawn from the past.
Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831), German
philosopher who developed the objective - idealistic basis
for the systematic theory of Dialectics (this citation is
repeated)
Each century has its own “Middle Ages”.
Taranov P.S.
If you can measure what you are taking about, and express it
in figures – it means, that you know something about this
subject. But if you cannot express it quantitatively, then
your knowledge is extremely limited and unsatisfactory. It
may be the initial stage, but it isn’t a level of true
scientific knowledge.
THOMSON William, also known as Baron Kelvin (1824 - 1907),
English physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics,
best known for proposing the absolute, or Kelvin,
temperature scale; he also contributed to other areas of
classical theory; since 1851 a member, and since 1890 on
1895 - the president of the London Royal Society; member of
Academies of Sciences of many countries and scientific
organizations
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The wealth of the country is not necessarily built on its
own natural resources; it is achievable even in the case of
their complete absence. The most important resource is the
person. The state just needs to create a basis for the
blossoming of the talent of people.
Margaret Thatcher, when acting as the prime minister of
Great Britain
The wealthier countries used to be there, where the nature
was more generous, now - where the person is more active.
Buckle Henry Thomas (1821-1862), English historian and
sociologist
The world has enough for everybody’s need, but not enough
for everybody’s greed.
GANDHI Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948), leader and
ideologist of the Indian national-liberation movement.
Better known by his people's name Mahatma Gandhi ("Great
soul")
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Most harm is not at all from ignorance, but from the
knowledge of a great many things which are actually not
true.
Frank KNIGHT, (1885-1974), American economist
Few could foresee, how resolute changes in the creation of
sources of wealth in the West would change the parity of
military opposition in the world and even the nature of
conducting war.
Alvin TOFFLER (1928-), American futurologist, author
(together with Heidi Toffler) of a well-known book "The
Third Wave" (1980), which is important for understanding of
the processes occurring in the modern global world
Empedocles noted to Xenophan, that it is impossible to find
a wise man. «That is true, - he answered - for the person,
wishing to find a wise man, must be wise".
Fragment from a conversation of ancient Greek philosophers,
about 500 AD (P.Taranov, «Wisdom of three millennia")
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Most harm is not at all from ignorance, but from the
knowledge of a great many things which are actually not
true.
Frank KNIGHT, (1885-1974), American economist
Few could foresee, how resolute changes in the creation of
sources of wealth in the West would change the parity of
military opposition in the world and even the nature of
conducting war.
Alvin TOFFLER (1928-), American futurologist, author
(together with Heidi Toffler) of a well-known book "The
Third Wave" (1980), which is important for understanding of
the processes occurring in the modern global world
Empedocles noted to Xenophan, that it is impossible to find
a wise man. «That is true, - he answered - for the person,
wishing to find a wise man, must be wise".
Fragment from a conversation of ancient Greek philosophers,
about 500 AD (P.Taranov, «Wisdom of three millennia")
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The majority is never right about the economic questions.
GALBRAITH John Kenneth, American economist, proponent for
the necessity of strengthening the state intervention into
the USA economy. Seeing much in common in the technological
level and organization of production in the USA and the
Soviet Union, supported the idea of convergence of the
systems
Good intentions without qualification give the same effect,
as qualification without good intentions.
V. Levi, psychologist
Everything can be improved.
Zhebit Gregory Avdeevich, chairman of the Public association
«The International Academy of Organizational and
Administrative Sciences" (Republic of Belarus)
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The knowledge of some principles easily compensates
for the ignorance of some facts.HELVETIUS Claude-Adrien
(1715-1771), French philosopher. Believed that the
world is material and infinite in time and space. Supported
the doctrine about the decisive role of the environment in
the formation of a person.
No amount of reasoning is going to help a person see
the way that he does not want to see.Romain ROLLAND (1866 - 1944), French
writer, novelist and publicist, Nobel Prize winner (1915)
Nothing prevents one from seeing, as much as one's
own point of view.DON AMINADO (real name Aminad
Petrovich Shpoliansky) (1888-1957), Russian poet. Immigrated
in 1920.
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