"Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work."

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Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “So Runs the World”, London : F. T. Neely

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#Merit Quotes #Results Quotes

“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.”

Source : Ray Brassier (2007). “Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism”, Palgrave Macmillan
“Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.”
“Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”
“Why, this Satanâ€™s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.”
“A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.”
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
“The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.”
“We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we're hoping that will happen. And - but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There's a couple that we haven't, but there - they look like their bio's are great and so we're - we're pushing on.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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