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The Tin Men
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Rowe was certainly less clever than himself, and it had come to the point, Goldwasser tacitly admitted, where he found it definitely helpful to his morale to talk to people he was absolutely sure were less clever than he was. Not stupid
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“Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“Kimseyle hiçbir konuda yarış halinde değilim. Kimseden akıllı, kimseden güzel, kimseden iyi olma gibi bir iddiam yok. Kimse için en değilim. Daha değilim. Bu devasa iddiasızlığın bana verdiği özgürlüğün hastasıyım.”
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“the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.”
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
“Polemical energy is wasted on showing that liberalism’s aims and ideals are narrowly Western, secular-Enlightened, bourgeois-individualist, procapitalist or—to use a fashionable term of abuse—rootlessly cosmopolitan. None of these slurs or labels stick. No sect or party owns liberalism’s aims and ideals. They serve every nation, gender and class. If that brands liberals as universalists, so be it. They may wear their scarlet “U” with pride.”
― Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
― Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
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