"I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do."

-- Carlos Beltran

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we were effectively given up as a basket case because we made various attempts through socialism to effectively alleviate poverty and keep growing but that model didn't work. So even when the pre-90s when we spoke to foreign corporation of foreign businessmen who wanted to do business with us, we were always a land of opportunity but an opportunity whose time have not yet come.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.”
“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.”
“[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.”

Source : Teddy Wilson, Arie Ligthart, Humphrey van Loo (2001). “Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz: The Autobiography of Teddy Wilson”, p.52, A&C Black
“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”
“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”
“If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.”
“How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.20, 谷月社

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