"....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree."

-- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Responsibility Quotes #Pride Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“... it took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you deal with an audience as a bunch of people having a great time, you'll have a much bettrer time as a performer”
“The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.”
“The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.
“People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.”

Source : Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.59, Macmillan
“You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.”

Source : Source: gawker.com
“Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.”

Source : Jack Higgins (2016). “The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional”, p.18, Open Road Media
“I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.”
“By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.”

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