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“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.87, Open Road Media
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“Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.”
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“I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.”
Source : Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.
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“The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.”
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“I just want to entertain.”
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“Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”
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“It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.”
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“For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries, or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the diseases of aging.”
