"Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book."

-- Robert P. Crease

#Book Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.”
“During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.”
“There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominvalley in November”, p.6, Macmillan
“We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.”
“Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.”
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

Source : "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
“And as I stood there in the hallwayâ€•aloneâ€•trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanationâ€•not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.168, Penguin

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