"A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage."

-- Robert Musil

#Men Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Damage Quotes

“No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.”
“I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.”
“A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.”
“I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.”
“Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.”
“You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.”

Source : “Phil Jackson: What I've Learned” by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. May 8, 2011.
“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
“If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.”

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