"You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular."

-- Harry Turtledove

#Wise Quotes #Clever Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.”

Source : Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books
“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.”
“I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.”

Source : Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.125, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.”
“Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.”
“I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2013). “The Wisdom of Andrew Murray”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.”

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