"All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment."

-- Kevin Powers

#Men Quotes #Choices Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.”

Source : David Dreman (2008). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: the Next Generation”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.”
“Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.”
“Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.”
“The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.”
“Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.”
“The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.”

Source : "No Impact Man: The Documentary". www.imdb.com. 2009.
“Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?”

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