"The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong."

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Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.224, Canongate Books

Neil Strauss

#Strong Quotes #Clever Quotes #Weak Quotes

“Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.”
“Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode.”
“I just donâ€™t feel like you can have enough speed pass rushers on your club.”
“Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.”

Source : Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)
“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.”
“I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.”
“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2011). “The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism”, p.14, Ballantine Books
“If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.”

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