#quit

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#because #become #been #cast #comfortable

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

#failures #his #instructive #learns #much

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#aggressive #anyone #back #being #between

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#classified #considered #considering #history #quite

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#difficult #imagine #life #me #my life

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #bad #dream #else

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#another #brief #clusters #composer #four