"Attitudes are the real figures of speech."

-- Edwin H Friedman

#Attitude Quotes #Real Quotes #Speech Quotes

“I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.”

Source : "A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy". Book by Hao Wang, 1996.
“Great minds sink alike, right?”
“We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.”

Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK
“Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.”
“Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."”
“We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.”

Source : Nicolae Ceaușescu (1983). “Nicolae Ceaușescu, builder of modern Romania and international statesman”, Pergamon
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
“I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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