"I distrust anything that you don't hear."

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Leo Ornstein

#Distrust Quotes

“I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.”
“The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.”
“You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.”

Source : "Less Than Three Years: A Policy Revision". itre.cis.upenn.edu. January 04, 2007.
“I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 76), 1985.
“I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.”
“If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too”
“The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.”
“We are not our brotherâ€™s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.”

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