"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

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Source : David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press

David Starr Jordan

#Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.”
“It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.”
“I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.”

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“I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club, and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dance floor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.”
“Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.”
“I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.”
“Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.”
“There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.”

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