Pametan Grad Quotes

#1. I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

James Surowiecki

#2. The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst

#3. I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

Gerhard Richter

#4. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

Tecumseh

#5. The code of small towns is simple but encompassing: if many forms of craziness are allowed, many forms of cruelty are ignored. Piggy

John Irving

#6. Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality

Paul Isaacs

#7. To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Heraclitus

#8. I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

Bai Ling

#9. Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

Seneca The Younger

#10. In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

William Odom

#11. I mean, I'm very, very competitive.

Phil McGraw

#12. The hidden hand of ambition is in the rewards of the determined.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a warm meal that was growing cold. I knew I had to eat, or else I would die, but I had lost my appetite.

Herman Koch

#14. History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
from Past Present and Future are One

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