"Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.”

Source : Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.65, Penguin
“To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.”
“I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.”
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”

Source : Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
“I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.148, Penguin
“A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.”
“Where there's tea, there's hope.”

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