"There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published."

-- Micah Perks

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.”

Source : "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.
“Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.”
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”

Source : Chairman Habil Khorakiwala's speech of Wockhardt Ltd., economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 2013.
“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”
“In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.”
“Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.”
“Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”

Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.55, Crown/Archetype
“I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.”

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