"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."

-- Jean Rostand

#Funny Quotes #Pessimism Quotes #Sincerity Quotes

“Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.”
“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”
“Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.”
“Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.”
“Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.”
“Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.”
“Touch magic. Pass it on.”

Source : Jane Yolen (2013). “Merlin's Booke: Stories of the Great Wizard”, p.9, Open Road Media

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