"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

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Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.”
“If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.”

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“When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.”
“Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.”
“I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.”
“The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people.”
“The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.”

Source : Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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