"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite."

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Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.86, Open Road Media

Sam Levenson

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“In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office”
“The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.”

Source : Jyllands-Posten, June 25, 2007.
“The land belongs to the people who work it,”
“Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.”
“The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.”
“We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.
“Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.”
“Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.”

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