"I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything."

-- Andrzej Sapkowski

#Pride Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Jumping Quotes

“In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.”

Source : "Dambisa Moyo's 6 Favorite Books". theweek.com. March 04, 2011.
“I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.”

Source : 1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.
“Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.”
“I would like to see a law legalising women's shelters in Iraq. I would like to see our radio being opened again as a result of the pressure that we're putting on the governmental body that could allow this.”
“I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.”
“The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.”

Source : "History as Literature".
“There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.”
“God is not dead-He is merely unemployed...”

Source : "The Pogo Poop Book". Book by Walt Kelly, 1966.

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