"Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common."

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Source : "The Perfect Mark" by Mitchell Zuckoff, www.newyorker.com. May 15, 2006.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#Desire Quotes #Common Quotes #Easy Quotes

“When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?”
“Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to the straightness of this wagon of the core of the mind, he will attain right-mindedness in either case. Severing oneself from desire and being like a rock or tree, nothing will ever be achieved. Not departing from desire, but realizing a desireless right-mindedness - this is the Way.”

Source : "The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman".
“Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.”
“And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.”
“I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.”
“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”
“I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.”
“During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'”

Source : "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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