"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."

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Franz Kafka

#Thinking Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad -- a foreign policy with alliances.”
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
“The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.”

Source : "Author, author: Kate Mosse". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.
“If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.”
“I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.”
“If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.”

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