"If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it."

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Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press

Noam Chomsky

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Mit Quotes

“Only death does not lie.”

Source : Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.56, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“No excuses. No explanations.”
“Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.”
“It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.”
“I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.”
“I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.”
“Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.”
“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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