"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."

-- Quintilian

#Dream Quotes #Hope Quotes #Vain Quotes

“You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.”
“One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books
“The ego is a fascinating monster.”
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
“Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.”
“Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.”

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