"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Men Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?”
“Government is not show business.”

Source : "OAKLAND / Beatty fires up nurses" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 23, 2005.
“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”
“Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.”
“With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting your parents and - with this kind of responsibility to protect them. That's what makes the children of Holocaust survivors strange.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.”
“I drink no more than a sponge.”
“Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.”

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