"Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do."

-- Walter de La Mare

#Morning Quotes #Tired Quotes #Long Quotes

“The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.”
“In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.”
“Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2011
“I understand that people don't want to smoke. Fine. Don't smoke. You don't want to go into a restaurant where there's [smoking], don't go in there. But don't impose your will - the will of a few - on the lives of many.”
“It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.”
“My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.”
“... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.”
“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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