"Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources."

-- George F. Kennan

#Healthy Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Inability Quotes

“I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.”
“The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.”
“The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.”
“Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.”
“The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.”
“When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.”
“Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “I Think of You”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.198

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