"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

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Source : Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

Eric Hoffer

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
“I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean”

Source : "Song: "What I Am" ("Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars")". 1988.
“Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.103, Рипол Классик
“I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.”
“Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.”
“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

Source : Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”
“The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.”
“Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.”

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