"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Civilization Quotes #Umpires Quotes #Two Quotes

“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”
“Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.”
“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”
“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?”
“Nature does not forgive.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.”
“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”
“If something is built to show, it's build to grow.”

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