Gerard Jones quotes

“I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was”
-- Gerard Jones

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“There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.”
-- Gerard Jones

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“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

“Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior”

“I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.”

“They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.”

Source : "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

“When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.”

“As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press

“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.”

“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”

“I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.”

“My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)”