"Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Real Quotes #Challenges Quotes #World Quotes

“SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission. You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are.”
“One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.”
“I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.”
“For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other”

Source : J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.72, Penguin
“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
“No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.”
“Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.”

Source : Hugh MacLennan (2011). “Voices in Time”, p.182, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

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