"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself"

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Life And Love Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Able Quotes

“It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.”
“When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.”
“I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.”
“The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.”
“Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.”
“With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.”
“I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.”

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