"There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much."

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Source : KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 05, 2003.

Noam Chomsky

#Too Much Quotes #Study Quotes #Reason Quotes

“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.”
“I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.”
“In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.41, Grove Press
“If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.”

Source : Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.
“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.
“As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.”
“One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.”
“My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.”

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