"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."

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Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

Flann O'Brien

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“New customers are the best source of new business”

Source : Frank Bettger (1992). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, Touchstone
“Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.”
“Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.”
“In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.”
“Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.”
“For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.”

Source : "Tyler Hoechlin Talks How Things Have Evolved for His Character, Interacting with New Characters, and More on the Set of TEEN WOLF Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 29, 2013.
“Systems are made by players rather than players making systems”
“As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.”

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