"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

-- Edward Gibbon

#History Quotes #Instruction Quotes #Disposition Quotes

“Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.”
“Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.”
“All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.”
“Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.”

Source : "Fall Crop" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2010.
“The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.”
“I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.”

Source : Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”
“Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!”

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