"There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !"

-- Eckhart Tolle

“I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person.I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.”
“The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.”
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
“...Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now...”
“You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.”

Source : Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”
“Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!”
“I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.”
“To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have”

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