"Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people."

-- Y. C. James Yen

#People Quotes #Experts Quotes #Individualism Quotes

“I will not dance to your war drum!”
“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.”
“How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2010). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.333, Penguin
“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
“Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.”

Source : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
“There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but I can explain that the thinking of the time was that we didn't want to emulate our heroes. That wasn't kosher. 'Don't try to play the old cliches, play like yourself' - that's what people were saying”
“Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity”
“The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.”

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