"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."

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Robertson Davies

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“Iâ€™m â€œexceptionalâ€- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of â€œgiftedâ€ and â€œdeprivedâ€ (which used to mean â€œbrightâ€ and â€œretardedâ€) and as soon as â€œexceptionalâ€ begins to mean anything to anyone theyâ€™ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesnâ€™t mean anything to anybody. â€œExceptionalâ€ refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life Iâ€™ve been exceptional.”
“The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.”

Source : Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books
“There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”
“With out each member, SS501 isn't complete. No matter how great the songs are, it wouldn't be the same without each member.”
“Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.”
“I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.”
“In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.”

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