"Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Stupid Quotes #People Quotes #Hazards Quotes

“Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.”
“The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years.”
“Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.”
“More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan
“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”

Source : Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945
“Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.”
“My biggest critics have never read me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”

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