"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

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Source : John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

John Ruskin

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“Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.”
“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.”
“Poetry cannot take sides except with life.”
“The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.”
“Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.”
“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”
“The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.”
“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.”

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