"Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was."

-- Julia Child

#Confused Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.”

Source : "The World’s Most Beautiful College Dorms" by Claire Cottrell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.
“No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.”
“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”
“History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.”
“You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.”
“hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1995). “Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir”, p.73, The Overlook Press
“Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.”
“Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.”

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