"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Names Quotes

“The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.”
“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”
“Im an environmentalist; I recycle.”
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”
“My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.”
“Get the hell out of Palestine.”
“In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.”
“Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the belief that new things can be discovered, that newer can be better, and that greater depth of understanding is achievable. Research, especially academic research, is a form of optimism about the human condition.”

Source : Henry Rosovsky (1990). “The University: An Owner's Manual”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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