"Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Lonely Quotes #School Quotes #Black Quotes

“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
“To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.”

Source : Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons
“Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.”
“Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.”
“Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.”

Source : The Manchester Guardian, 1939.
“I still think of myself as from Illinois.”
“We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.”

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