"To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."

-- Emil Zatopek

#Stupid Quotes #Mean Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.”
“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.246, Open Road Media
“What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.”
“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
“I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you”
“Iâ€™m very conscious of the fact that you canâ€™t do it alone. Itâ€™s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.”
“I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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