"I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense."

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Gunter Grass

#Seductive Quotes #Nonsense Quotes #Found Quotes

“You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields”

Source : "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gulf War" by Charles Jaco, (p. 23), 2002.
“We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.”
“You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.”

Source : Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
“I wonder why he shot me ?”
“Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.”
“There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.”

Source : "Say what? The arcane wisdom of Jaden and Willow Smith" by Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2014.
“I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.”

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