"To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes."

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Richard Hofstadter

#Lying Quotes #Skills Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (2001). “South From the Limpopo”, p.235, The Overlook Press
“As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.”
“The great ones don't come cheap.”
“I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.”
“I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”
“I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.”

Source : "Living on Earth: Helping the Prez, Greening the Rez". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.organicconsumers.org. January 16, 2009.
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.”

Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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