"Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it."

-- Mel Torme

#Genius Quotes #Kind Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Let me show you how to drive me crazy,Let me show you how to make me feel so good,Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.”
“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.6, Cambridge University Press
“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”
“We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.”

Source : Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.
“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether itâ€™s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasnâ€™t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”
“Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.”
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”

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