"Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant."

-- John Berger

#Home Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.”
“There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.”
“It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.”
“When I sat on the chair at 5-0, I was like, 'Okay, now you can try to break her, and if not, you have the serve.' So I was a little bit more relaxed since I had a few chances to do that. But I still knew I could break her. Then suddenly I did a winner from the backhand, and I was so happy. I didn't really know what was going to happen, and I just had tears in my eyes, I was just so, so happy.”
“It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.”
“I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”

Source : Franz Wright (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr
“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”
“I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.”

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