"I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country."

-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Country Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry.”
“I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.”
“And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.”
“I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.”
“Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers
“Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY
“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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