"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know."

-- Alexander Pope

#Friendship Quotes #Merit Quotes #Praise Quotes

“The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

Source : Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.209, Spiegel & Grau
“My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One expresses well only the love he does not feel.”
“The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.”
“Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr
“Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.”
“Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.”

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