"A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing."

-- Karl Kraus

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“I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...its always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.”
“When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.”

Source : Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ralph Russell (2000). “The Famous Ghalib”
“I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.”
“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
“I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.”
“Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.”

Source : Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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