"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Men Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.”
“You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity”
“There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.”

Source : "America at Risk: Two Novels President Obama Should Read". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.
“Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.”
“A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.”
“I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.”
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

Source : Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster
“Loneliness is more painful than being hurt”

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