"I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Hard Work Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?”
“I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.”
“Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.”

Source : Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.335, Routledge
“It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.”
“When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.”
“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”
“That's the whole thing with Israel. When they do things and nobody is punishing them, not even criticizing them, then that will get them drunk of power to continue on growing up and doing whatever they do.”
“You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.”

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