"To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at."

-- Richard Russo

#Skills Quotes #Information Quotes #Grids Quotes

“One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.”
“In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass!”
“Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.”
“There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.”
“I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.”
“Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.”
“If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.”

Source : "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.
“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

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