"Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes."

-- Max Beerbohm

#Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Theme Quotes

“You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.”

Source : Nicky Cruz (2017). “Run Baby Run”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com
“20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.”
“Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.”
“People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.”
“I like meat and carbohydrates.”
“In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this”
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”

Source : "Dictionary of American Maxims". Book edited by David George Plotkin, 1955.

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