"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
"من لم يتحرر من الاكراه في صورتيه: اكراه الاخر والخضوع للاخر، لايستطيع فهم هذا الدين وتمثيله"
"Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done."
"There’s the impossible and then there’s Cosmic Ordering."
"In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back"and not "I love your back"before you continue the conversation."
"The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
"Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling."
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
"Are you going to kiss me?"I blabbered stupidly."I'm working up the nerve,"he said softly."
"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
"To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned."
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."
"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."
"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
"People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future."
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