"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.”

Source : "Square Cofounder: Jack Dorsey Is Like Hello Kitty". Interview with Seth Fiegerman, mashable.com. January 26, 2014.
“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.”
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.”
“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.”
“Wicked companions invite us to hell.”
“[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.”

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