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He that is valiant and dares fight, though drubbed, can lose no honor by ‘t.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680) English poet, satirist, painter, philosopher [Hudibras Butler]
“Hudibras,” Part 1, canto 3
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What gets measured, gets managed.

Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) Austrian-American business consultant
(Attributed)
Frequently cited, but not sourced. Cf. Lord Kelvin.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
“Oscariana” (1909)

I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

John Updike (1932-2009) American writer
Interview, New York Times Book Review (10 Apr 1977)

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar’s worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective — a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) US President (1901-1909)
“The New Nationalism,” speech, Osawatomie, Kansas (31 Aug 1910)
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