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Piet Hein (1905 – 1996)


Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet.
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Piet Hein
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.
Hein quotes
Experts have
their expert fun
ex cathedra
telling one
just how nothing
can be done.
Hein
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




Hein Piet quotes
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.
Hein Piet
Shun advice
at any price -
that's what I call
good advice.
Piet Hein quotes
Co-existence
or no existence.
Piet Hein
Those who always
know what’s best
are
a universal pest.
Hein Piet quotes
The way to grow grand
is not: to demand.
In life's every field
you are what you yield.
Hein
Wisdom is
the booby prize
given when you've been
unwise.
Hein Piet
Love while you've got
love to give.
Live while you've got
life to live.
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