"Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers."

-- Mikhail Bakhtin

#Evaluation Quotes #Used Quotes #Contradictory Quotes

“I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.”
“A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.”
“MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!”
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”

Source : Richard Carlson (2016). “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, p.161, Mango Media Inc.
“The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion.”
“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.”
“Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.”

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