"Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake."

-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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“The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.”

Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
“Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.”
“I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.”
“I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.
“Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.”

Source : "Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.
“Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.”
“North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'”

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