Quotes Gamsat Section 2
February 1, 2017 | Author: noob1314 | Category: N/A
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TASK A:
1: “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” Thomas A. Edison 2: “Progress is not accomplished in one stage.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables 3: “Change is the parent of progress.” Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
4: “Stagnation is selfabdication.” Ryan Talbot 5: “The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.” Benjamin Disraeli TASK B:
1: “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” Joseph Pulitzer
2: “When one's unconscious is full of vice, nothing realizes inner potential like hypocrisy.” Bauvard, The Prince Of Plungers 3: “My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.” Natalie Clifford Barney
4: “To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.” Benjamin Franklin
5: “Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.” Napoleon Bonaparte
TASK A:
1: “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
2: “Save the Planet...Buy Organic” Nancy Philips 3: “To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.” Roman Payne 4: “May your heart be lighter today.” Harley King 5: “The doctor of the future will be oneself.” Albert Schweitzer TASK B:
1: “The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island 2: “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ” Mae West 3: “More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.” JeanJacques Rousseau 4: “Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.” Thiruvalluvar, Kural 5: “Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.” A.W. Tozer
TASK A:
1: “The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” Raul Ramos y Sanchez, Pancho Land 2: “Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.” P.D. James, The Lighthouse 3: “Remove the document—and you remove the man.” Mikhail Bulgakov 4: “But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.” Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
5: “Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv ist, ob der Bürger am Leben oder tot ist.” J.M. Coetzee, Tagebuch eines schlimmen Jahres
TASK B:
1: “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
2: “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche 3: “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” Aristotle 3: “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” Aristotle 4: “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” Jim Morrison
5: “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
TASK A:
1: “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.” JeanPaul Sartre 2: “It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.” Anton Szandor LaVey 3: “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” Robert A. Heinlein 4: “Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Martin Luther King Jr. 5: “Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
TASK B:
1: “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters 2: “She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to her heart then to her head. A battle she never felt worth fighting.” Coco J. Ginger 3: “What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.” John Marsden, The Dead of Night 3: “What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.” John Marsden, The Dead of Night 4: “But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary 5: “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
TASK A:
1: “knowing is not enough,we must apply willing is not enough, we must do..” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2: “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” Albert Einstein 3: “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” Lao Tzu 4: “Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.” Jim Butcher, White Night
4: “Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.” Jim Butcher, White Night
5: “Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.” George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
TASK B:
1: “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ” John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
2: “They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
3: “The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” André Breton 3: “The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” André Breton 4: “A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God.” Sidney Sheldon 5: “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
TASK A:
1: “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein 2: “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds
3: “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” Kahlil Gibran 3: “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” Kahlil Gibran 4: “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” Maya Angelou 5: “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates TASK B:
1: “The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.” Mark Twain 2: “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 19451950 3: “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.” Rachel Maddow 4: “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.” Malcolm X 5: “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
TASK A:
1: “He and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.” George Carlin 2: “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” Mark Twain 3: “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.” C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair 4: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Albert Einstein 4: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Albert Einstein 5: “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Mahatma Gandhi TASK B:
1: “The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.” Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays 2: “Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.” Mike McIntyre, The Kindness of Strangers 3: “The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.” Dorothy Day 4: “Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra 5: “I'm starting to think that maybe this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit. ” Richelle E. Goodrich
TASK A:
1: “When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.” Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation
2: “Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man” JeanJacques Rousseau
3: “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche 4: “The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.” Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying
5: “Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.” Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White TASK B:
1: “I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.” Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere: Selected Poems. Petrarch
2: “you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.” Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn 2: “you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.” Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn 3: “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
4: “Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.” Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel 5: “It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.” Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
5: “It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.” Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
TASK A:
1: “The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba yes Cuba too.” Malcolm X 2: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fiftyone percent of the people may take away the rights of the other fortynine.” Thomas Jefferson
3: “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Mark Twain 4: “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” Abraham Lincoln 5: “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” Franklin D. Roosevelt TASK B:
1: “Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.” Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair 2: “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.” P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens 3: “Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that. Sergeant Schlock” Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management 4: “I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.” Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
5: “I'm tired of this backslappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.” Bill Hicks
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