"The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge."

-- Bruce Lee

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.”

Source : "Lawmaker calls Buffett's bluff". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2012.
“Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 20, 2010
“Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.”
“If you are not serious, people will sense it.”
“In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.”
“This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.”
“Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.”
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

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