"Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant."

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Chuck Palahniuk

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.”
“I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.”
“Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.11
“The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.”
“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”

Source : DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”
“Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.”
“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyesâ€”never!”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”
“you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.”

Source : William Joyce, Laura Geringer (2011). “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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