"I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life."

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Source : "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

Peter Carey

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Private Life Quotes

“Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.”

Source : "The Norton History of Chemistry" by William H. Brock, W W Norton & Co Inc., (p xxvi), 1993.
“I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!”
“There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.”

Source : Charles Bradlaugh (1890). “Speeches”
“We must think nationally about the [trails] system and act locally to link trails and make the system happen.”
“Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.”

Source : "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.
“The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.”
“It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.”

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