"That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong."

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Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

Aaron Levie

#Mean Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.”

Source : "Voices of Tomorrow : The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". Book by Jessica Smith, p. 30, 1971.
“Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.”
“We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.”
“So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?" "Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned. That brought surprised laughter. "What a relief to us both then that I am actually wearing exactly what you saw me in this afternoon. Although one might point out that in that outfit, your last concern should be my modesty.”
“Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.”
“Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.”
“I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.”

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