"A book for everyone concerned about our common future."

-- Jim MacNeill

#Book Quotes #Common Quotes #Concerned Quotes

“Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!”
“As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.”
“we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.”

Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1919). “The Little Colonel's House Party”
“We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.”
“I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.”
“You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.”

Source : "ReThink Review: Undefeated - Why Sports Matter" by Jonathan Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
“Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.”
“And sometimes I think there isnâ€™t anything to us but our mistakes.”

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