"I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual Ã©lite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Edgar Snow

#Doubt Quotes #Mind Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“So much of performing is a mind game.”
“I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, Iâ€™m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.”
“I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.”
“A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the system of physical science, even in those branches like astronomy that seem to approximate mathematical certainty. He cherished this belief, for it led to the consoling hope that humanity would inevitably make progress toward a state of happiness and improved character even as it has already done in its knowledge of the truth.”
“Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.”
“We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.”
“God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

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