"Never accept the initial premise of the opposition."

-- John W. Campbell

#Assessment Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Initials Quotes

“I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”
“The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
“I am in love, and he's the one. Obviously I thought the one before him was the one and the one before that was the one, too. Frankly, I'm so much into the idea of being in love that anyone out of about 3 million could be the one. But no, this one now is definitely the one, the very one.”
“When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”
“After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.”
“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.”

Source : "The World Almanac and Book of Facts" edited by Luman H. Long, (p. 159), 1969.
“And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.”
“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

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