"Snoop is a tour de force! Itâ€™s one of the smartest and most original books Iâ€™ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist."

-- Richard Florida

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“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.”
“I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.”
“I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.”

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“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”
“We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.”
“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.”
“It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope,”

Source : Song: Big Finish, Album: Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
“Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.”

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