"Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it."

-- Loretta Chase

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“His speech is a burning fire.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.77, Cambridge University Press
“The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
“Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.”
“How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.”
“Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.”
“Those who realize that life is for growing and developing from each and every challenge, each day of our lives, live a life of joy!!!”

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