"A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste."

-- Andre Maurois

#Men Quotes #Waste Quotes #Combat Quotes

“What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?”
“All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.”
“The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.”
“Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?”
“Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let's not book her again.”
“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.”
“We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured how we came to be.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.233, Penguin
“Man has become great through struggle”

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