One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all, ' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' David Mamet
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls...
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Shannon L. Alder
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are...
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Sun Tzu
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Theodore Roosevelt
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
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Donzella Michele Malone
More Quotes By David Mamet
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
It's only words... unless they're true.
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired...
In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets...
