"No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish."

-- Max Stirner

#Selfish Quotes #School Quotes #Merit Quotes

“Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.”
“But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.”
“When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick ***** for they crumbs.”

Source : Song: The Robbery Song, 1996
“Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.”
“Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.”

Source : Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books
“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.”
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
“We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.”

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