“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“We made a mistake lowering the voting age to 18. I think it happened basically out of guilt.”
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“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”
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Maithripala Sirisena
(1951) Sri Lankan politician, 7th President of Sri Lanka
M. I. A. on Sirisena, M I A speaks about Srilankan President Maithripala Sirisena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Mqk8NOhIA, video published Jan 14, 2015.
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Stanley Kubrick
(1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
Quoted in Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013) by Phillipe Mather, p. 46
Context: I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Elon Musk
(1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
Hayao Miyazaki
(1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
Nikolai Krylenko
(1885–1938) Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser
On penalizing abortion in 1936. Quoted in Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1993
Joe Hill
(1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
(1907–1998) American judge
When I had the opportunity to reread the opinions a few months later, I thought the dissent had the better of the arguments.
At NYU Law School, (18 October 1990); after retirement from the Court, reflecting on his vote in Bowers v. Hardwick to uphold laws making homosexual sex a crime for which people could be imprisoned. Reported in Nat Hentoff, " Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9850,213790,2210,6.html", The Village Voice, 22 December 1998.
1990s
“We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.”
Murray Walker
(1923) Motorsport commentator and journalist
The Guardian staff (December 27, 2000) "It's the end of an earache or do I mean era?", The Guardian.
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