"Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world."

-- Ricardo Reis

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #World Quotes

“It does not matter how smart you are if nobody knows what you are talking about.”
“The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.”

Source : "Why We Fight", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“We think by feeling. What is there to know?”
“The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.”
“Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books
“The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.”
“History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.”

Source : "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.
“If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!”

Source : "Shawn Stockman: Boyz II Men Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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