"Donâ€™t do it because itâ€™s your job, do it because you can."

-- Seth Godin

“"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."”
“My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.”
“On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”
“There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself, to seek out his weaknesses and your own strengths, and act accordingly, b) to make ample use of subterfuge and stratagem in order to defeat or disarm your adversary, and c) to use outright violence only when absolutely necessary in the belief that political struggle was more effective than military struggle.”
“It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.”
“I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.”
“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”
“It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him...”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.33, Vintage

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