"Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer."

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Source : "Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics". Book by Ziad K. Abdelnour, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#Attention Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must look to her for the materials for pictures, not for pictures themselves. It is nature filtered through the mind and fingers of the artist that produces art, and the quality of the pictures depends on the fineness of that filter.”
“I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship”
“In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain.”
“I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literatureâ€”not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press
“Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.”
“Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.”
“I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!”

Source : Mark Felt, John D. O'Connor (2007). “A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat', and the Struggle for Honor in Washington”, Public Affairs

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