"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

-- Thomas Fuller

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“Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.”

Source : Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.174, A&C Black
“Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
“Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.”
“Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.”
“There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.”
“I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.”
“Everybody always wants to meet musicians. You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, "I'm a musician," and they'll have something to say to you. It's kind of this weird passport where you can go around and as soon as you say you're a musician, you're welcome.”

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