"The belly is the giver of genius."

-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Food Quotes #Genius Quotes #Giver Quotes

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
“If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.”
“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.”
“You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.”
“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.”
“Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.”
“I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.”

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