James Richardson: Trending quotes (page 2)

“The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.”

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People , Way

“I’ve spent so long trying to fly that it’s too late to set out on foot.”

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Aphorism #10
Interglacial (2004)

Flying

“What’s the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone’s, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?”

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Confidence

“The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.”

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Love , Faith , Suffering

“Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.”

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“God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.”

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Love , God , Help

“The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us.”

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“Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.”

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Teachers , Perfection

“The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.”

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“Yet sadly we feel that many of the noisiest are more interested in their indignation than in the injustice.”

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Aphorism #22
Interglacial (2004)

Feeling

“On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.”

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Law

“I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.”

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“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

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People , Reading

“The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.”

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Time

“I’ll buy that means also I believe it.”

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“If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.”

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Time

“Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.”

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Dead

“The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.”

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“The new gets old much faster than the old gets older.”

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“The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.”

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