"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in lifeâ€”becoming a better person."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Perfect Quotes #Arrogance Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.111, Vintage
“I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.”
“The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a collaboration between a spirit of creativity and a human being. So it could be that sometimes an individual had that power, that divine inspiration, or other times not. The spirit might have moved on to some other lucky soul.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.”

Source : "Jamie Waylett Talks About Being 'Crabbe'". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.
“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press
“Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.”
“I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.”
“Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.”

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