"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."

-- Samuel Butler

#Inspirational Quotes #Praise Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge”
“Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.”
“I probably get it trimmed once every two months or so. I've just been going to the salon in the city, and they'll clean it up a bit.”
“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options”
“Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.”
“The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.”
“Any group of persons â€“ prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients â€“ develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.”
“The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.”

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