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“You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.”

Wells May Action Opinion Failing Conversation Shining Appreciation Superiors Inferiors

Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

“Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.”

Men Wells Hope Poor Superiors Palaces Poor Man Parasites Huts Flatterer

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.”

Way Wells May Creation Skills Evidence Areas Focused Superiors Concentration Brilliance Overlooked

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.”

Wells Book Process Products Lovers Speech Excellence Superiors Unusual Aesthetic Vehicle Utility Printed Obsolete Antiques Insisting Book Lover

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”

“Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil. Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older.”

Men Mind Wells States Together Young Attitude Disease Mere Absence Superiors Well Being Diets Young Man Old Man Bottles Drs Vitality Recreation Dr Phil Pizzazz

Author:Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz