"Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea."

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Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.101, Macmillan

Leigh Bardugo

#Ideas Quotes #Anything Worth Doing Quotes

“A named thing is a tamed thing.”
“During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri LÃ©vy and [AndrÃ© ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.”
“I got schooled this year by a boy. A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with. And he taught me the most important thing of all... To put the emphasis On life.”
“Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.”
“A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.”
“I connect with people on a daily basis.”
“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.”

Source : "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

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