"People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can."

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Source : Daniel Keyes (2004). “Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Keyes

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“I have this strength that comes from knowledge.”
“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA
“If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.”
“I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.”
“You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain”
“A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.”
“It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.”

Source : "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.
“Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition...or caprice?”

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