"Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people."

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Source : Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Joseph Joubert

#Eye Quotes #People Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.”
“I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.”
“I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain menâ€”for certain peopleâ€”to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.”
“A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.”
“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.”
“Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.”
“As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.”
“The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.”

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