"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."

-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Purses Quotes #Ears Quotes #Way Quotes

“We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.”
“If you ain't holding, you ain't trying.”
“Buying is a profound pleasure.”
“I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.”
“Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.”
“I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.”
“Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.”
“Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.”

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