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"The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees."
"Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?"
"I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees"
"When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
"But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have."
"You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter."
"The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body."
"[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?"
"To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving."
"When one does not love too much, one does not love enough."
"Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull."
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
"Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?"
"And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger."
"Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it."
"It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable."
"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief."
"My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough."
