#ect

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ↗

— Chanakya

#beats #beauty #best #best friend #educated

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

#feared #individual #objective #objective truth #reason

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#life #personality #understanding #life

A really good detective never gets married. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#gets #good #married #never #really

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #cruelty #further #just #level

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. ↗

— James Chanos

#always #aspect #balances #bones #checks

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #direction #electric #external #field

I think it's important for whatever you are doing, even if it's a collection, to seek outside advice. If your world becomes too insular, it limits your creativity. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#becomes #collection #creativity #doing #even

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#disease #get #i #i can #infected

What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#also #amazing #chance #comfort #comfort zone