"The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak."

-- Jacqueline Kelly

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.”
“I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.”
“Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.”

Source : "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.
“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press
“A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.”
“Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.”
“You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.”

Source : "Virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro Takes Ukulele Seriously". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Jennifer Ludden, www.npr.org. January 1, 2011.
“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”

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