"The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable."

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Source : Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier: Top American Novels”, p.78, 谷月社

Theodore Dreiser

#Honesty Quotes #Character Quotes #World Quotes

“The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.”
“We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder,”
“I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.”

Source : "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.”
“Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.”
“Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.”
“People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.”
“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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