"You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same."

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Source : Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

Marjorie Kellogg

#Change Quotes #Listen To Me Quotes

“I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”
“After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!”
“To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country - the young men.”
“Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.”

Source : Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.2
“A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.”
“When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.”
“People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.”

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