"Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street."

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Source : "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'". St. Petersburg Times, September 8, 1971.

William Shockley

#Men Quotes #Color Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it...”
“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.38, Orb Books
“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”
“There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.”

Source : "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”

Source : "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.
“Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.”
“Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.”
“More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.”

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