"One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will."

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

Armand Hammer

#Spiritual Quotes #Father Quotes #Legacy Quotes

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
“All sorts of things can happen when youâ€™re open to new ideas and playing around with things.”
“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”
“All men want their ***** to be unhappy.”
“My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.”
“For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.”
“A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.”
“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”

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