"I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders."

-- Mr. Lee

#Reality Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.”
“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.”
“Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.”
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”
“Iâ€™m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.”
“In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”

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