"I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man."

-- Joseph O'Neill

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Cricket Quotes

“The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.”
“Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.”
“In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.”

Source : Franz Liszt (1998). “Franz Liszt”, Oxford University Press
“Who but lovers dream alike?”
“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.”

Source : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.
“I am a child of the 21st century.”
“I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.”
“Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.”

Source : "World Affairs in Foreign Films: Getting the Global Picture". Book by Roberta Seret, p. 122, 2011.

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