"Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere."

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Source : Laura Anne Gilman (2009). “Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

Laura Anne Gilman

#Idiot Quotes #Hungry Quotes

“Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.”
“But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.”
“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”

Source : Hakuun Yasutani (1996). “Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan”, Shambhala Publications
“He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.”
“That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.”
“Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.”
“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”
“What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.”

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