"I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting."

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Heidi Julavits

#Children Quotes #Smart Quotes #People Quotes

“The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.”
“Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.”
“Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.”
“In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.”
“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.”
“The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready”
“The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.”
“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”

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