"Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality ..."

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Margaret Mead

#Cynicism Quotes #Sentimentality Quotes

“While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.”
“You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane”

Source : D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.”
“Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”
“Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.”
“Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.”
“I don't work with a stylist.”
“Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy whoâ€™s freezing his ***** off back in Brooklyn.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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