"He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton."

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William Makepeace Thackeray

#Stuff Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Silence is the essential condition of happiness.”

Source : Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”
“It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.”
“Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.”
“L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.”
“I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol.”
“I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.”

Source : "Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation David Morrell, Master of the Modern Thriller". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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