"Death and the dice level all distinctions."

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Source : Samuel Foote (1760). “The Minor: A Comedy. Written by Mr. Foote. As it is Now Acting at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. ...”, p.39

Samuel Foote

#Dice Quotes #Levels Quotes #Distinction Quotes

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”
“All thoughts create thought-forms. When you think about anything, an electrical impulse is released. Its charge gathers into a form that appears clairvoyantly like a soap bubble. The thought-form creates, manifests, and attracts that which is similar to it.”
“The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court”
“The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.”

Source : Ryszard Kapuscinski (2001). “The Shadow of the Sun”, p.6, Vintage
“I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.”
“The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.”
“The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.”

Source : Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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