"Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price."

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Tom Lehrer

#Nice Quotes #Moral Quotes #Manners Quotes

“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.”
“There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be able to say "this song doesn't work."”
“(Home) is you in things.”
“There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.”
“Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.”
“When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.”
“There's very much a domino effect when I'm playing. In fact, that's a good way of putting it. I'm trying to topple all the dominos in a single stroke. That would be a show with perfect momentum. Every now and again, you get one of those dominos that moves to the side a little bit, traps things and you have to stand them all up again and see if people will go with you. They'll let you off a few times but if you make too many mistakes they'll get a bit anxious.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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