"Never take advice from a donkey."

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Source : "Fictional character: Doc". "The Power of One", www.imdb.com. 1992.

Bryce Courtenay

#Advice Quotes #Donkey Quotes

“It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.”

Source : Anthony Sampson (1983). “The money lenders”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.”
“When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.”
“Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.”
“Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible ***** of the Orient.”
“The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.”
“Everything youâ€™ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, youâ€™ve generated personal failure, because you canâ€™t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source canâ€™t be pin-pointed.”

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