"As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse."

-- Ranulph Fiennes

#Mean Quotes #White Quotes #Hazards Quotes

“In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.”
“Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.”
“Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.”

Source : Song: Fear Not of Man
“I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.”
“Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.”
“Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo dance. It's almost like the tango. That's what it says in the Merriam-Webster [dictionary]. The second entry is [defined as] 'tomfoolery.' That's what it says in the dictionary, that's what I go by. I remember Queen saying it too on 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' When I was little I never understood what they meant by 'do the fandango.”
“For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.”
“Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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