Aphorisms
“‘All bad people should be gone!’ I say no, because I think
there would be nobody left.”
“‘An eye for an eye’ leaves the whole world blind.”
“‘Can you see my future?’ ‘No, I can see your choices.’”
“‘Enough’ is a feast.”
“‘Leaders’ are front page editions of yesterday’s
corruption.”
“‘Love,’ just another word I’ll never learn to pronounce
without sincerely meant it.”
“‘Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take
of things.’ Reply: ‘What about things like bullets?’”
“‘The root of human misery lies in the exploitation of the
proletariats by the owners of capital.’ We are totally
alienated from the fruits of our labor. The world is full of
producers who can’t afford to purchase what they
produce. Teaching 1000 students each paying 200
thousand as fees but a teacher is given not even half the
money of one student as salary.”
“‘Why do you put up with me?’ ‘It’s because you’re fire and
I’ve been cold my whole life.’”
“‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are very powerful words. Mean them when
you say them. Respect them when you hear them.”
“30 years from now, it won’t matter what jeans you wore,
how popular you were, what your hair looked like, or what
sneakers you wore. What will matter is what you made of
your education, and where it took you in life.”
“A ‘no’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a
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