"Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want."

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Source : Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

Irving Kristol

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“In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.”
“Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.”
“When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.”
“There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.”
“Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.”
“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.”
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
“Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.”

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