"A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority."

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Source : Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.73, Spectra

Barry Hughart

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.”
“Money buys everything, even true love.”

Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.
“Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”

Source : 1979 Quoted in the Observer,'Sayings of the Week', 9 Sep.
“Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.”
“But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.”

Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.”
“I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.”
“Hate will keep you alive where love fails”

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