"Never mind a world that can't see past brutality."

-- Ric Ocasek

#Past Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.”
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”
“Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.”
“Energy flows where attention goes.”
“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.”
“Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.”

Source : Val McDermid (2009). “Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)”, p.27, HarperCollins UK
“In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press â€” because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.”
“Swing hard in case you hit it.”

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