"It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Degrees Quotes #Odd Quotes

“You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.214, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.”
“I wear my heart on my sleeve.”
“As above, so below, as within, so without.”
“I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.”
“Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.”
“Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?”

Source : William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”
“To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.”

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