"We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth"

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Mouths Quotes #Understood Quotes

“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”

Source : "The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest" by Stephen Tuck, Henry Louis Gates, (p. 15), November 20, 2014.
“House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.”
“The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.”

Source : "R.I.P. Krazy Kurt Sutter's Twitter Feed" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 15, 2011.
“We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.”
“Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter”
“Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.”
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”

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