"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."

-- Alain de Botton

#Intelligent Quotes #Insanity Quotes #Disease Quotes

“You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.”
“After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.”
“I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.”
“Iraq's government is at a stalemate.”

Source : "Federalism, Not Partition" by Mowaffak al-Rubaie, www.washingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.
“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.”
“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

Source : Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9
“All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.”

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