"Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards."

-- Martha Stewart

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“Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage
“I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.”
“We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.”
“You miss 100 percent of the selfies you never make.”
“Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.”
“But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.”
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

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