"I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work."

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Toby Young

#Aptitude Quotes #Academic Quotes #Mechanic Quotes

“Every year, my family and I would go visit my moms family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.”
“Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product...”

Source : Mircea Eliade (1989). “Journal II, 1957-1969”, p.269, University of Chicago Press
“I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.”
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”
“Iâ€™m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.”
“Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.”
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“Love is bigger than government.”

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