"Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill"

-- Fausto Coppi

#Skills Quotes #Age Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and thereâ€™s a lot of â€™em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. Iâ€™ve earned it. Iâ€™ve deserved it. Iâ€™ve sought it out. Such is my punishment.”
“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.149, Cambridge University Press
“Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 754), 1946.
“This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.”

Source : "20Q: Ed Helms". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. May 30, 2011.
“He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.”
“Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment â€“ you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the otherâ€™s going, â€˜I donâ€™t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.”
“When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.”

Source : "A genius explains" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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