"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

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Source : "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

Johann Georg Hamann

#Three Quotes #Single Word Quotes #Eloquent Quotes

“Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date”
“That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.”
“It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?”
“You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.”
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.”
“Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing.”
“I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II”

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