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 ====== Citations générales ======
-En essayant continuellement, on finit par réussir. Donc plus ça rate, plus
+En essayant continuellement, on finit par réussir. Donc plus ça rate,
-on a des chances que ça marche. -- devise Shadok.
+plus on a de chances que ça marche. -- devise Shadok.
-If one keeps trying, one succeeds eventually. Therefore, the more one
+If one keeps trying forever, one succeeds eventually. Therefore, the
-fails, the closer one is to success. -- Shadok motto.
+more one fails, the closer one is to success. -- Shadok motto.
 "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
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 enthusiastic about." -- Albert Einstein
-"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
+"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with
+themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz
-"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
+"Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne
-on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz
+ne veut descendre les poubelles." -- Jean Yanne
-"You do not really understand something unless you can
+"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one
-explain it to your grandmother." -- Albert Einstein
+thinks of changing himself." -- Tolstoï
-"Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne ne veut descendre
-les poubelles." -- Jean Yanne
-"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
-himself." -- Tolstoï
 "Ouvrez une école, vous fermerez une prison." -- Victor Hugo
 "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
  -- Henny Youngman
-"Quiconque croit que la croissance exponentielle peut continuer sans fin,
+"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite
-dans un monde fini, est soit un fou, soit un économiste."
+world is either a madman or an economist."
- -- Kenneth Boulding, économiste
+ -- Kenneth Boulding, economist
-"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world
+"When the winds of change are blowing, some people are
-is either a madman or an economist." -- Kenneth Boulding, economist
+building shelters and others are building windmills."
-"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
- -- Dave Barry
-"On n'est jeune qu'une fois, mais on peut être immature toute sa vie."
- -- Dave Barry
-"When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building
-shelters and others are building windmills."
 "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number.
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 economical numbers." -- Richard Feynman
-"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
+"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology
-respectable." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
+look respectable." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
-"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a
+"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize
-mistake when you make it again." -- Franklin P. Jones
+a mistake when you make it again." -- Franklin P. Jones
 "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better
 than we deserve." -- George Bernard Shaw, literature Nobel prize
-"Le bonheur, c'est ce qui reste quand on enlève le malheur."
+"Nous n'héritons pas la Terre de nos ancêtres, nous l'empruntons
- -- Dalaï Lama
+à nos enfants." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
-"Nous n'héritons pas la Terre de nos ancêtres, nous l'empruntons à nos
+"Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is
-enfants." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
+a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence" -- Evelin Linder
-Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a
+"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not
-self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence -- Evelin Linder
+care who gets the credit." -- Harry S. Truman
-"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who
+"La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six
-gets the credit." -- Harry S Truman
+milliards de petits problèmes." -- Hubert Reeves
-"La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six milliards de petits
-problèmes." -- Hubert Reeves
 "I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
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 lequel des deux empêche l'autre de dormir." -- Dalaï Lama
-"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise,
+"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature.
-lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness
+Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting,
-and then is suddenly gone." -- Hodding Carter
+and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day,
+however, is against nature and should be prohibited." -- Douglas Adams
+No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone,
+turn back. -- Turkish proverb
+"Quand on pense qu'il suffirait que les gens n'achètent pas
+pour que ça ne se vende plus ! " -- Coluche
+Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts
+avoiding you. -- The Old Farmer's Almanac
+"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without
+changing a single idea." -- Robert Anton Wilson
+"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where
+Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want
+to give up power." -- Arthur C. Clarke
+"If anything ever comes up in science that clearly contradicts
+traditional buddhism, then we'll simply have to abandon that
+aspect of traditional buddhism." -- Dalaï Lama
+"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
+thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." -- Thucydides
+"Between stimulus and response there's a space. In that space is our
+power to choose our response. In our response lies our freedom."
+ -- Viktor Frankl
+"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
+ -- John Lennon
+"It's a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don't
+have on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last on
+people we don't care about." -- Tim Jackson
+"Si vous jugez un poisson par sa capacité à grimper à un arbre, il va
+passer sa vie entière à croire qu’il est stupide." -- Albert Einstein
+"Les altruistes ne sont ni plus ni moins rationnels que les égoïstes.
+Ils poursuivent simplement des buts différents." -- Robert Frank
+"Le bien-être d'une nation ne peut pas être déduit de la mesure
+de son PIB." -- Simon Kuznets, inventeur du PIB, prix Nobel
+"The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of
+national income." -- Simon Kuznets, GNP inventor, Nobel prize winner.
+"Traitez les gens comme s'ils étaient ce qu'ils devrait être, et vous
+les aiderez ainsi à devenir ce qu'ils peuvent être." -- Goethe
+"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help
+them become what they are capable of being." -- Goethe
+"Les chiffres sont accablants : il y a de plus en plus d'étrangers
+dans le monde." -- Pierre Desproges
+Focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have.
+Concentre-toi sur ce que tu as plutôt que sur ce que tu n'as pas.
+"When you have to classify the very capacity of the Earth to support
+human life as an "externality", then it is time to rethink your theory."
+ -- Herman Daly
+"Ce n'est pas un signe de bonne santé que d'être bien adapté à une
+société profondément malade." -- J. Krishnamurti