"Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?"

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Russell Lynes

#Wise Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”
“Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.”
“Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.”
“I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.”
“The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.”
“We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“More die in flight than in battle.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”

Source : Tad Williams (2005). “The Dragonbone Chair: Book One of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.16, Penguin

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