"When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'."

-- Criss Jami

#Humble Quotes #Underestimate Quotes #Authenticity Quotes

“Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.”
“The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.”
“I was just worried about my nose-job.”
“Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
“I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.”
“Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.”
“In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?”
“The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.”

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