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Dutch admiral (b. 1577), Birth: 25-11-1577, Death: 18-6-1629 Piet Pieterszoon Hein Quotes
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Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.
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Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping
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The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Co-existence or no existence.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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To be and not to be, that is the answer.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.
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When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
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if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m
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Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein