"a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long."

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Jostein Gaarder

#Long Quotes #News Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.”
“As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.”

Source : Brian Crozier (1993). “Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Love is not love if there is no beloved.”
“If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.”
“It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're a big producer on a movie set, or whatever, it's a lot harder to be a pro than be a baby on your crew. That's one work ethic to keep in mind, as one bad apple could give five people a bad day, when that one person could've stepped up their own efforts a little more and not bring anyone else down.”
“All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.”
“Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.”

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