"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent"

-- Robert De Niro

#Talent Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.”

Source : Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”
“According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.”
“If he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen.”
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [NOT our!] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.”
“I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment. Also, roughly around the time we were doing this fact-checking. And I never really understood why people think what nonfiction's job is to give them information as opposed to something else.”
“Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish and obey: that's civil society. Think of the state as the domineering husband who expects to have a monopoly on power, on violence, on planning and policymaking.”
“Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate.”

Source : "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 114), December 1962.

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