"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Men Quotes #Power Quotes #Arms Quotes

“You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys.”
“Create, artist, do not talk.”
“Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.”
“Referees and linesmen are killing teams.”

Source : "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.
“If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.”

Source : "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.
“Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.”
“He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.119, Anchor

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