Piet Pieterszoon Hein Quote Explained: if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

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Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

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The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life’s every field you are what you yield.

Admiral

· Netherlands

Demand
Yield

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Art is always of fixed, determined solutions – not things that might as well be different.

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

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

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

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

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

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Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren’t naive.

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

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If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

Mind
Speech

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When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it’s well to remember that Things Take Time.

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Admiral

· Netherlands

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life’s every field you are what you yield.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions – not things that might as well be different.

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

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

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren’t naive.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it’s well to remember that Things Take Time.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

If someone grabbed me, I’d probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! Explain

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

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