truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:12 am

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:23 am

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:24 am

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:26 am

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:29 am

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:33 am

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 27 February 2007 8:35 am

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
Ernest Hemingway