"Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. ClichÃ©s roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds."

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Source : Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

Elsa Maxwell

#Party Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.”
“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.”
“There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?”
“In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.”
“Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.”

Source : "Taliban vows vengeance". www.wired.com. September 14, 2001.
“A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.”
“I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.”

Source : "Mohamed Morsi, in UN speech, calls for action on Syria, Palestinian cause " by Priyanka Boghani, www.pri.org. September 26, 2012.

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