"Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man."

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George S. Patton

#Army Quotes #Men Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.”
“In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.”
“As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.”
“Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.”
“Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.”
“I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.”
“I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

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