"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't."

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Source : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Christopher Paolini

#Nature Quotes #Hate Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.”
“Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.”
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.”
“A dead end street is a good place to turn around.”
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
“Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.”

Source : "Confronting the Inequality Juggernaut: A Q&A With Jonathan Kozol". Interview with Anthony Cody, blogs.edweek.org. July 18, 2011.

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