James Alan Fox quotes

“Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.”
-- James Alan Fox

Source : James Alan Fox, Jack Levin (2014). “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder”, p.156, SAGE Publications

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“The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.”
-- James Alan Fox

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“Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”

“I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.”

“We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.”

“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”

“There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.”

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”

“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.”

“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”