"We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel."

-- Adam Weishaupt

#School Quotes #Mean Quotes #Winning Quotes

“It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!”
“I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.”
“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Source : "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.
“When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.”
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”

Source : Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)
“On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.”
“And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.”
“Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9

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