"Preparing for the ups and downs of life."

-- Robert D. Hales

#Ups & Downs Quotes #Preparing Quotes

“Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?”
“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”
“If there is one â€˜constantâ€™ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.”
“We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.”
“I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.”
“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Source : Judith Butler (2014). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"”, p.2, Routledge
“Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.”
“An educated people can be easily governed.”

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