"I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence."

-- Maureen Johnson

#Ideas Quotes #Iron Quotes #Trying Quotes

“As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.”
“I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.”

Source : Source: motherboard.vice.com
“I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.”

Source : "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: on being stereotyped, his deep-fried childhood, and letting failure make you stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, fyeahiananthonydale.tumblr.com. 2016.
“I find I'm an old soul.”
“Songs are snapshots of what youâ€™re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.Â Â Iâ€™m satisfied with my progress as a writer and a human being, and I know Iâ€™m going to get better at both.Â Â There will be times when Iâ€™ll feel like Iâ€™m not improving, and Iâ€™ll get through that.”
“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”

Source : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”
“The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.”
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”

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