"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

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Source : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

Albert Camus

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Respect Quotes

“I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.”
“There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.”
“By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives.”

Source : "How to Build a Mind". Book by Igor Aleksander, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.
“The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.”
“Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.”

Source : Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.”
“I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.”
“To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.”

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