"Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable."

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Harold Bloom

#Mediocrity Quotes #Want Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”

Source : Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.24, Routledge
“I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.”
“I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.”
“Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.”

Source : Source: beachcarolina.com
“its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.”
“Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.”
“The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
“It was really important to try to reach a whole new audience so we had a lot of people in who not only had not seen the last film but were not Star Trek fans, or thought of themselves as not being Star Trek fans, or they had seen bits and pieces of Star Trek in the past and it was just not for them.”

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