"Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does."

-- Stanley Schmidt

#Jobs Quotes #Hate Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Wenn jemand sich in Inkarnation befindet, bietet ihm dieser KÃ¶rper das Problem, das er erlernen muss oder (wenn die Evolution fortgeschritten ist) bietet den TrÃ¤ger, der sich fÃ¼r die Art der jeweiligen Aufgabe am besten eignet. Ein orientalischer KÃ¶rpertyp hat eine gewisse Anzahl von FÃ¤higkeiten, und ein abendlÃ¤ndischer KÃ¶rpertyp weist andere und, wenn ich so sagen darf, ebenso gute Eignungen auf.”
“Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm...”
“How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.”
“Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.”
“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”
“I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it.”
“I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.”
“What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.”

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