"Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves."

-- Jonathan Messinger

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Self Quotes

“I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.”
“The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.”
“Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.182
“The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you areÂ when they catch up to you.”
“I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.”
“Arguments from authority carry little weight â€“ authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

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