"I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature."

-- Evgeny Morozov

#Months Quotes #Six Quotes #Checks Quotes

“Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.”

Source : Dmitry Medvedev might not be Russia's great badminton hope after all" by Tom Parfitt, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2011.
“This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.”
“Only worry about things that are within your control”
“With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.”
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
“Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.”
“An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They're experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual.”
“Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home”

Source : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.36, Mel Bay Publications

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