"I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

J Mascis

#Nice Quotes #People Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.1, Columbia University Press
“One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.”
“When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.”
“It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, we donâ€™t need protections against it.”

Source : Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.
“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”
“Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.89
“The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.”
“So, what do you think, my dear, will it be a girl or a boy?â€ â€œIt will be a soul-stealer, apparently.â€ â€œWhat!â€ The earl reared away from his wife and looked down at her suspiciously.”

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