"Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out."

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Source : 'La Bête Humaine' (1889-90) ch. 5 J'accuse.

Emile Zola

“The cards are bigger than you. You're not bigger than the cards. The cards are the best player at the table. So, let them come to you and don't force the issue. Pick your spots.”
“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”
“Joy could be as exhausting as grief.”
“Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.”

Source : "Puerto Rico Gov. Says Latino VP Would Help GOP Win Latino Vote" By Susanne Ramirez de Arellano, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2012.
“Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.”

Source : Song: I Need You, Album: Don't Say No
“When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.”

Source : "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006.
“Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.”
“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”

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