"A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other.""

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Horace Greeley

#Fire Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Fool Quotes

“If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.”
“That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.”

Source : Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.
“I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.”

Source : Yakov Smirnoff (1987). “America on six rubles a day”, Vintage
“The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.”
“People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I think there are two important frameworks in which those choices get made. One, their degree of immiseration. The greatest predictor of who will engage in criminal activity is poverty, which tells us that the decisions people make about how unlawful they're willing to be are decisively based in their own experience of immiseration. The second framework is that when people choose to act, they inevitably act where they are.”
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

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