"Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm."

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Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.

#Causes Quotes #Harm Quotes #Enormous Quotes

“Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.”
“I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.”
“Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.”
“Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.”
“In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.”
“I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.”
“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.”
“If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.”

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