"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."

-- Remy de Gourmont

#Education Quotes #Sensibility Quotes

“Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,”
“Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?”
“Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.”
“Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.”
“I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. So I went to the school and, being a smart cookie - as they called us in those days - I had a million questions. How did this place exist? How come I didn't know about it? Why are people living like this? Do they want to live like this?”
“The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
“I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.”

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