"Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns"

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Source : Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.117

Andrew Marvell

#Reign Quotes #Blind Quotes

“Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
“What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.”
“It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks”
“Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.”

Source : Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
“Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.”
“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]”
“In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.”
“I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.”

Source : "Wes Borland: Why He Left Limp Bizkit". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 24, 2002.

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