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“Morons. I've got morons on my team.”
Source : "Fictional character: Percy Garris". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1969.
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“I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.”
Source : Mary Hoffman (2008). “City of Flowers”, p.204, A&C Black
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“All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.”
Source : George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation
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“Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.”
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“A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.”
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“all our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.”
Source : "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 63, 1991.
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“If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.”
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“I have an old brain but a terrific memory.”