"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Inspirational Quotes #Time Quotes #Men Quotes

“Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.”
“Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.”
“People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.”

Source : "The one, the only Groucho on PBS" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2001.
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don't just talk about it. Don't just read and think about it. Do it.”

Source : Larry Winget (2009). “No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget”, Penguin
“Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.”

Source : Pete Carril, Dan White (1997). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.”

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