"Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly."

-- Johannes Brahms

#Important Quotes #Copying Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.”
“I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.”
“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.”
“Art is really whispering, not shouting.”
“The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.”
“I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.”
“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.”
“Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.”

Source : "Economics Cannot be Separated from Politics". Quoting "Declaration of Havana". Speech at Punta del Este, www.marxists.org. August 08, 1961.

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