"People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school."

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Source : Sean Platt, David Wright (2011). “Yesterday's Gone: Season One”, p.364, Sterling & Stone

David Wright

#School Quotes #People Quotes #Underdog Quotes

“My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.”
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
“How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.149, Penguin
“The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice and asked if they could do a feature article on us about how a commune works. They came and asked us questions, took our photos and disappeared. One week later the article appeared and it said: 'This kind of community stinks and if this is the future of Germany then we need Adolf back.'”
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.”

Source : "Tony Abbott under fire". AM with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. July 2 , 2002.
“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”
“A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.”

Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.

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