Andrew Samuels quotes

Andrew Samuels quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.”
-- Andrew Samuels

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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.”
“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.”
“The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.”
“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.”
“The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.”

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