"The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people."

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Source : James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

James P. Hogan

#Cheating Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Skills Quotes

“If I fail, you will never hear of me again.”

Source : Eadweard Muybridge (1979). “Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion”, Courier Dover Publications
“No art is possible without a dance with death.”
“I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something to talk about. If it's not about anything that matters, I don't feel like doing it. I'm not against people who make movies just for fun, but I'm not one of those guys. I just want to provoke thinking and debating about certain issues.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.”
“Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.”
“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”
“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”
“...go in the direction your head is pointed in.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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