"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."

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Source : "Siraaj: An Arab Tale". Book by Radwa Ashour and Barbara Romaine, 2007.

Milan Kundera

#People Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.”
“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency....”
“Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.”

Source : Mabel Collins (2012). “Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold”, p.139, tredition
“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”
“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”
“You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.”
“There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.”
“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.”

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