"If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination."

-- Greg Mankiw

#Illumination Quotes #Support Quotes #Use Quotes

“It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.”
“The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person.Â I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail?Â Who cares if you fail?Â It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down.Â If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.”
“It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.”
“The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.”
“I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anger destroys your soul.”
“I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.”
“Don't be the best in the world. Be the best for the world.”

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