"The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun."

-- Lewis Carroll

#Reckless Quotes #Abandoned Quotes #Pun Quotes

“What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldnâ€™t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once youâ€™ve realised that no one else has a clue what theyâ€™re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.”
“Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere. If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.”
“The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.”
“Good environmentalism is good economics”

Source : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”
“And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.”

Source : "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
“I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.”
“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”

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