"Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making."

-- Laurence J. Peter

#Mediocrity Quotes #Wave Quotes #Tolerate Quotes

“...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.”

Source : John Ringo (2013). “There Will be Dragons, Second Edition”, p.149, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.”
“I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.”
“I think most of us secretly know â€“ and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say â€“ that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.”
“I'd like to see Paris before I die.”
“I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.”
“Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.”
“The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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