"It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed."

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Source : Maurice Nicoll (1973). “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky”

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“My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.”
“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.”
“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.”
“Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.”
“Language is mankindâ€™s greatest invention â€“ except, of course, that it was never invented.”
“When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.”

Source : "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday (Really!)". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.”

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