"This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception."

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1957). “Alfred Adler: a portrait from life”

Phyllis Bottome

#Real Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.”
“From politics it was an easy step to silence.”
“For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.”

Source : "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.
“The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.”
“I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms...”
“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense. [Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.]”
“If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.”

Source : Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan
“Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.”

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