"There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes."

-- Michael Eric Dyson

#Dark Quotes #Clothes Quotes #People Quotes

“At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.”

Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
“Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.”
“Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.”
“I wouldn't change a thing about my family.”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
“The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.”
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
“I've crippled more people than polio.”

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