"Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave."

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Richard Lamm

#Wise Quotes #Political Quotes #Enough Quotes

“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...”

Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf
“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.â€ - Chinese proverb”
“My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Eventually we even got to the point where we could disagree with [Bernard Leach]. I mean, when we first went there, gee, I mean, this was a man who had written a book. He was, in a sense, God, and we for the first couple of weeks called him Mr. Leach.”
“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”
“I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.”
“Be the hero of your own life story.”
“Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.272, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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