"I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win."

-- John Pilger

#Winning Quotes #Two Quotes #Pockets Quotes

“Our competitors arenâ€™t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.”
“Peace prevails when food suffices”
“Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.”
“Don't forget that at the end of the 70s people were much more into wild experimentation and hedonistic adventures. There was not really a fear of sexual diseases like HIV or aids back then, all that came later.”
“I will never step foot in the Octagon”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 2, 2013
“We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.”
“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”

Source : Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage
“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”

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