"I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together."

-- Friedrich Engels

#Together Quotes #Balzac Quotes #I Have Learned Quotes

“How far back does one's memory of someone go?”

Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.15, Vintage
“There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!”
“It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.”
“But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.”
“Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.”
“I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013
“No offense, boys are more immature than girls. Knowing that and not wanting any BS in my life - not having time for it - you just have to be smart about it. Obviously, if you're really attracted to someone and you're in love with them, that's fine. But I see all my brothers and how they act and ... to be picky is good.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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