"Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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“I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].”
“Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.”
“God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.”
“It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can take from it what they need. If somebody says, "Your art is very funny," I say, "You are totally right." If somebody says, "Your art is very sad," I say, "You are totally right." In Japan they say, "Your art is very Japanese, you even look Japanese.Your great-grandfather was most surely a Japanese man." And I say, "You are totally right."”

Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
“It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.”
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
“People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.”

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