"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Thought Provoking Quotes

“For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.”
“This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”
“The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.”
“I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.”
“Most people are on the world, not in it.”
“I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.”
“Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does...”

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