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Quotations Summer 2011
"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the
world. It beats money and power and
influence. It is no more or less
than faith in action." It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. "The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,but that it is too low and we reach it." He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. - "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. Life is just one damned thing after another. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. Blame someone else and get on with your life. Language is the source of misunderstandings. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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