""Simpler is always better" is an overstatement."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Elliott Sober

#Overstatement Quotes

“Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.”
“though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...”
“Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.”
“After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.”
“If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.”

Source : Pre-performance clip, May 01, 2007.
“Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.”
“I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.”

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