"A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty."

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Evan Esar

#Problem Quotes #Dictator Quotes #Empty Quotes

“If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.”
“For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.”
“I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.”
“Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.”

Source : "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.
“I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.
“To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.”
“I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.”

Source : "Moby (No Last Name Given)". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2014.
“Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too.”

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