"He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.”
“the last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ...”

Source : Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.3, Lulu.com
“Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.”
“That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.”
“We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.”
“Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.”
“Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races”
“I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.”

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