"Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate."

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Source : Interview with D.J.R. Bruckner, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

George Steiner

#Hate Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.”
“My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.”
“If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.”

Source : "Crime does pay" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.
“Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.”

Source : "Mouthing off about linux". www.jwz.org. 2000.
“It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.”
“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”
“It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.”
“To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.”

Source : "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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