"Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks."

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Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

Armand Hammer

#Looks Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Language Quotes

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
“I was a great fan of Jim Henson.”
“It was a long time ago, we were in the office, and we had finished work exhausted. A friend of a friend said 'Hey, take this it will give you energy,' so I thought I'd try it. I didn't know what it was. It made me laugh and laugh, like crazy...to the point that my back hurt' *he holds his hips* 'like I'd just had a baby.”
“My true Self is free.Â I cannot be contained.”
“You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.”

Source : "The Sameness of Organisms, Cities, and Corporations". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. July 26, 2011.
“I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.”
“Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.”
“I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.”

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