"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."

-- Antonio Tabucchi

#Choices Quotes #Doubt Quotes #World Quotes

“I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.”
“there's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew.”

Source : Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press
“That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasnâ€™t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.”
“The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.”
“I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.”
“Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing... raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting...Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality... Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.”
“The fellow is either a madman or a poet.”
“If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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