"I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence."

-- Marya Mannes

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“Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.”
“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”
“You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.”
“Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?”

Source : Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella (2010). “My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman”, p.32, Macmillan
“When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.”
“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.”
“Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.”
“Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.”

Source : Raymond Tallis (2015). “Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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