"Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you."

-- Ben Goldacre

#Pain Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Dubious Quotes

“Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.”
“People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.”
“Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.”
“I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.”
“Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.”
“My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.”

Source : "Marvin Hamlisch obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2012.
“To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.”

Source : George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks
“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.”

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