"Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party."

-- Harold S. Kushner

#Party Quotes #Favors Quotes

“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
“They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.”
“Iâ€™ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fearâ€”not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparationâ€”you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.”
“There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.”
“As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.”
“At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.”
“The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.”
“If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.”

Source : Jack Valenti's testimony as President of the MPAA to the U.S. House of Representatives, cryptome.org. April 12, 1982.

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