"External pressure seems to produce internal unity."

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Source : "Man, the State, and War" by Kenneth Waltz, (p. 149), 1959.

Kenneth Waltz

#Unity Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Produce Quotes

“I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.”
“I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.”
“Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.”
“If I can't be beautiful, I'd rather just die”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Feb 06, 2012
“The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.”
“I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.”
“Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.”
“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.”

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