"Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Mean Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.”
“As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.”
“Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.”

Source : "The Coming War Over Genes: Darwin's Enemies on the Left". www.unz.com. December 01, 1999.
“It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.”

Source : Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90
“Politics is history in the present tense.”

Source : "John Avlon and Margaret Hoover, Political pundits". Landon Lecture, www.k-state.edu. April 15, 2016.
“To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.”
“Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”
“Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.”

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