"To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher."

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James Joyce

#Teacher Quotes #Humble Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013
“Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.”
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
“Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.”
“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”
“The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before. Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn't just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.”

Source : "Top of the pots". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”

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