"To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self."

-- Suzanne Curchod

#Appreciation Quotes #Self Quotes

“You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.”
“There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country”
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”
“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various "modern" C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.”

Source : "John Carmack discusses RAGE on iPhone/iPad/iPod" by John Carmack, www.bethblog.com. October 26, 2010.
“We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.”
“The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.”
“The integration in Germany was made easier by the fact that I am probably of the third generation. So I have undergone a process of assimilation, of Jews into German society.I lived as a child in Germany, the feeling of being surrounded by people of whom the majority had very strong anti-Semitic sentiments. But there was one very odd thing in the whole milieu in which I lived: no one accepted the stigmatization. It is quite difficult. No one, my father for instance, would ever take it seriously. He would regard anti-Semites as people of no education.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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