"Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so."

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Source : Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

Sonia Johnson

#Thinking Quotes #Risk Quotes #Important Quotes

“I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.”
“My heart beats as much as I can breathe.”
“There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.”

Source : Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.4, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.”
“The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.”
“We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.”
“A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.”

Source : E. Digby Baltzell (2018). “Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification”, p.191, Routledge
“Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success”

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