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“Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.”
Source : Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.241, Simon and Schuster
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“If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.”
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“When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.”
Source : David Elkind (1981). “The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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“Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.”
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“I dont consider the bloody ROI.”
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“A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite”
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“I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.”
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“The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.”
Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan
