"Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it."

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Source : Peter Elbow (1986). “Embracing contraries: explorations in learning and teaching”, Oxford University Press, USA

Peter Elbow

#Hunger Quotes #Increase Quotes #Certainty Quotes

“I believe in cooperating for the common good”

Source : CNN profile, www.cnn.com. March 3, 1997.
“We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.”
“I will not fail: God is always victorious.”

Source : "Always True". Book by James Macdonald, 2011.
“The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.”
“Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel.”
“In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.”
“There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.”
“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”

Source : "The myth maker" by Michel Houellebecq, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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